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...there is something illusory about the millions of dollars received in investment return, and Cabot is the first to admit it. For one thing, the huge numbers sometimes deter would-be benefactors from giving to an institution which they think--mistakenly--does not need the money...
...they would permit Germany to rearm only if the German forces were part of a European, not a national army. Such a supra-national force will come into existence only if the French will it. Today, no single European state can act as a third force powerful enough to deter Soviet aggression. If a balance of power is possible in the hydrogen age, it can come only through a close union of the United States and a united Europe...
...Wide Range of Power. Later in the week, Dulles sat before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and carefully moved on with his mission of clarification: "The best way to deter aggression is to make the aggressor know in advance that he will suffer damage outweighing what he can hope to gain . . . The free world must maintain and be prepared to use effective means to make aggression too costly to be tempting . . . The greatest deterrent to war is the ability of the free world to respond by means best suited to the particular area or circumstances." And that ability, said Dulles...
...Atomic air power deters atomic air power, period," wrote Williams. "If we want to deter anything else, and if we want to have the means of dealing with the situation in case the deterrents fail, we must be able to counter . . . any aggressive movement, whether by a hostile army, navy or air force. We must have weapons and concepts suited to the needs of every level of military operation between the border raid and all-out global war . . . This means a level of conventional armaments adequate to meet the needs of our national security in the absence of atomic weapons...
...place our principle reliance in Asia upon a method of retaliation which carries with it what are probably unacceptable risks, and at the same time reduce our capacity for more limited, local responses, as the new policy seems to do, will we not in fact invite, rather than deter local aggression in Asia?... How does the new policy deal with... (Soviet techniques) which do not take the form of external aggression...? Can we afford to put all our eggs into a single military basket...