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...Russians were apparently sulking over the continuation of the Anglo-U.S. airlift, which they had thought the West would drop like a hot hand grenade as soon as the New York agreement was reached last May. They no doubt disliked Western stockpiling in Berlin as a buffer against possible future blockades. But Washington accepted with equanimity the prospect of more trouble on the Autobahnen. Said one Department of State spokesman: "We worked out a pretty good scheme of retaliation measures at the time of the lifting of the blockade. The degree of our reaction will be strictly proportionate...
There has been some speculation about the reasons for the science-fiction fad. The Saturday Review of Literature's Harrison Smith has speculated about the relation of the "age of anxiety" to the "scientific fantasy story" as "a buffer against known and more conceivable terrors." Publishers' Weekly finds that the appeal of these stories lies "in their free flight of [imagination] . . . uninhibited by present reality, yet sometimes terrifyingly close to the advanced discoveries of modern science...
...wanted to play Princeton. Likewise students at Princeton felt that the game with Harvard was really an essential part of a Tiger schedule. The result was a gradual rapprochement between the two. First the two crews raced each other, with MIT also in the race to act as a buffer. Then the minor sport competitions was resumed...
...perfectly understandable that the American Military Government in Germany is not being very harsh with the Nazis, who after all rose to power only because the West realized that they might be used as a buffer against the Soviet Union. Unfortunately, the businessmen of the West failed to forces that the megalomaniac Hitler would turn not only against Russia, as planned, but also against the Western powers...
...primary task of the American Government in Germany is to re-establish that country as a buffer against Russia. Nazism is only a side issue with General Clay. are more important than people, anyway. Judson Wood...