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Though Nixon's plan was a buoyant -and unprecedented-gesture by a major world power, it came in for surprisingly heavy criticism at the Malta conference. Third World delegates heard ominous colonial overtones in the term trusteeship. Britain's Lord Ritchie-Calder wanted faster action t? keep the arms race out of the seabed. It is now so easy to detect land-based military sites, he said, that the big powers will soon look to the "opaque depths of the seas" for concealment...
...predicted that the U.N. would start setting up such a regime next year, though he conceded that a binding treaty could not be completed until 1973 at the earliest. Other delegates thought that an independent agency could do the job more efficiently than the bureaucracy-ridden U.N. Lord Ritchie-Calder likened the process to "the opening up of the last frontier. First, adventurers go into virgin-territories to stake their claims and repel interlopers," he said. 'Then the federal marshal comes along to represent the" law, followed by the elected sheriff and a regime of law and order." What...
Sense of Community. Calder ably combines the methods of the journalist, historian, sociologist, researcher, pollster and commentator to tell how it was to be a British civilian in Hitler's war. The cumulative effect is occasionally overwhelming. The innocent bystander (if 25 years' distance makes the reader innocent) picks his way through the human rubble of five ruinous years of war and still wonders how the British managed to "take it." The impression is clear, though, that only a people long nourished by a willingness to "put up with things" and a strong sense of community could have...
Along with everything else that he does, Calder is a part-time poet. But recreated memories of his nation under the bombs do not inspire him to poetry. Indeed, there was precious little "war poetry" from World War II. Calder lets World War I Poet Robert Graves explain why: the soldier "cannot feel that his rendezvous with death is more certain than that of his Aunt Fanny, the fire-watcher...
...absence of poetics-and heroics -seems appropriate, but the reader is warned that Calder's historic rehash is served up with the left hand. Tories are the villains-for Munich, for building the wrong sort of planes, for sheer Blimpishness. The fact that the Labor Party kept on thinking that it could have peace and disarmament is barely mentioned. Such partisanship ill becomes a study that ends with the Empire overseas liquidated to the tune of 4,000 million pounds sterling, 500,000 dwellings smashed, 355,000 dead (62,000 of them civilians), more rationing looming up, and "with...