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...world of potential enemies. Their main aim is Russia's development. For this, they need 25 years of peace. To this end, they want military security. As the Russians see it, in a world of potential enemies military security is guaranteeable only through territorial padding and balanced buffer states-not primarily through agreements. To the Russians, this seems particularly true so long as any agreement made with Britain or the U.S. might be modified or nullified by new governments...
...Army had not broken the entire line, but it had burst more than one seam. It was marching into a fragment of Poland, toward Rumania, toward the Baltic States. The border of Germany proper, at its nearest, still lay 340 miles across the buffer lands. But of pre-1939 Russia the Wehrmacht now held a slipping grasp on approximately 200,000 square miles; once it was master of 527,000 square miles of Russia...
Thus Russia once again served notice of her determination to block revival of the old cordon sanitaire idea of unfriendly buffer states between Russia and the west. What western statesmen had to worry about was whether Russia intended to make this impossible by setting up its own form of cordon "insanitaire" among the central and eastern European countries...
...reporter before he joined the Navy Department as a public-relations man in 1918 and met Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt. McIntyre was business manager of F.D.R.'s 1932 campaign, was thereafter rewarded with his post as the White House's special lobbyist, buffer and public-relations man. For the next eleven years he racked his wraithlike body with an average of 270 daily phone conversations, numberless face-to-face encounters with Presidential callers...
...this land of great ghosts, the Chinese Government today looks for more than antiquities. The fact of reintegration means much to Chinese pride, calling to mind the greatest days of China's history. It gives China what China's greatest statesmen have always sought-a vast natural buffer zone between her own centers of population and the vigorous pressure of the outland. Beneath Sinkiang's sands and mountains lie raw mineral resources which may match even Chinese optimism. The Russians have plotted a chain of oil deposits stretching almost a thousand miles, from the Pamirs to north...