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Nowhere in Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare does Russell advocate surrender to the Soviet Union. His most extreme passage maintains, "The view that No World is better than a Communist world, or that No World is better than a Capitalist world, is one that is difficult to refute by abstract argument, but I think that those who hold it should question their right to impose their opinion upon those who do not hold it by the infliction of the death penalty upon all of them." Although this September, when he received a seven day jail sentence, Russell was not urging...
...KITCHEN. Something not often done and less often done well: a socialistic shocker. Working from a pink-hot play by Britain's Arnold Wesker. Director James Hill gives the capitalist system a thorough roasting in 74 minutes...
...five Katangese planes destroyed on the ground, 39 trucks, three armored cars, one helicopter, two fuel dumps, and half a dozen railroad locomotives. Crying economic murder, Moise Tshombe accused the U.N. of planning Katanga's industrial destruction. "This day will be marked with a white stone by the capitalist bourgeoisie to mark the story of its decadence," he cried. U.N. officials retorted that they were striking at the industry and transport that might serve Tshombe's cause. But the question arose in many countries: Whatever the merits of the U.N. mission, was this kind of destruction necessary...
...about competition with the West. This competition cannot be purely economic. It must also be apparent in the field of rights, in the field of freedom. Only through simultaneously raising the standard of living and extending freedom will our socialist system gain more followers and win the competition with capitalist countries...
...high places and low, there were misgivings. In the beginning, it had been the Russians who were skittish about the relationship. When the World Council was founded, in the old Stalin days, the Russian Orthodox Church refused to join, on the grounds that this was a capitalist plot to dominate the churches. Under the Khrushchev regime, Moscow's Patriarch Alexei let it be known that the World Council might not be so bad after all, and the ecumenical leaders stepped up their efforts to bring the Russians in, finally succeeded when the Russians formally applied for membership last spring...