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...currencies and credit in circulation to finance the world's trade. Reason: U.S. and British moves to end their balance-of-payments problems are likely to have the side effect of so constricting the supply of funds as to throttle world trade, whose expansion has been the chief bulwark of global prosperity...
There was some tidying of the war room. Created in 1949 as a bulwark against a Russian ground invasion of Western Europe, NATO for most of its existence has been unrealistically committed to the goal of 30 divisions in Europe backed up by stockpiled supplies sufficient to support them through 90 days of combat. At slightly more than 26 divisions today, NATO is the closest it has ever come to that goal. For the first time, the ministers openly admitted what most Europeans had privately felt for some time-that, as one diplomat put it, "the idea of a full...
...Bulwark Against Designs. But far more important than the protection of American nationals was worry that European countries might come over the Atlantic again to intervene in pursuit of old colonialist designs. This fear, in turn, gave rise to the U.S.'s enduring defensive bulwark against foreign encroachment in the Western Hemisphere: the Monroe Doctrine...
...turbulent life was a search for meaning. Incapable of orderly, objective thought, he lumbered from howling superstition to scientific determinism, finally came to believe in an "intelligent creative force," which he sometimes called God. At the end of his life, he revised his old, unfinished novel, The Bulwark, to develop its religious significance and ramifications...
...company with the tongue-twisting name of Svenska Aeroplan Aktiebolaget is known throughout the world chiefly for its sturdy, roly-poly automobiles, which bear the company abbreviation, Saab. Few outside of Scandinavia are aware that Saab is also one of the Continent's largest aircraft producers and a bulwark of Sweden's defense effort. The company has built about 90% of its country's 700-plane jet air force, the world's fifth largest-and soon it will increase even that impressive percentage. It has just been chosen by the Swedish government to build 800 Saab...