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...here," wrote the Times's Dale, in the current issue of the scholarly Yale Review, "is, unabashedly, to argue that God is after all in His heaven -as much as He ever is-and that all's right with the world." Dale recognized that there are indeed real and serious world problems. But he suggested that "things are not nearly as bad as they are commonly painted in the deeper and continuing struggle, which is invariably, if somewhat uncritically, described as the most serious in which this nation has ever been engaged...
...article, titled The Case for Optimism, Dale listed several international developments which give cause for believing that the U.S. is winning, not losing, the cold...
...Said Dale of his list: "I shall not add at this point, as the alarmist school customarily does, that this is 'only a partial list,' because it is all I can think of. I have a hunch that their 'partial' lists are all they can think of too, but let that...
...factors, said Dale, are relevant to the cold war almost everywhere it is waged-and the U.S. has the advantage in both areas. "One," Dale wrote, "is that up to now there has not been any military disparity [between Russia and the U.S.]. Of course, the pessimistic school concedes this and talks only of the future with its 'missile gap,' etc. I shall yield them this much: If the day in fact came when the Russians had a clear-cut, visible, undoubtable military superiority, including the capacity to wipe out our deterrent with a surprise attack, there would...
...Dale's second point was that the power of the Soviet economic offensive and Soviet internal economic growth, as compared to U.S. efforts, has been "grossly, absurdly overrated." His major argument: "Our form of economy, at its present stage of development, seems to have a natural tendency to grow at a rate of between 3.5% and 4% a year. This is quite sufficient to produce a rising standard of living and whatever resources for the government we feel are necessary. The Soviets may or may not continue to grow at a somewhat faster rate. But the prospects of their...