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Neither did he fell that a United Nations security force was the answer. For at present, the political strains between the major powers would prevent this. If you get the necessary improvement in relations, then the need for such a police force would diminish, and the UN action should then be to press for world disarmament...
...League will be a McCarthy group. "Only a few of those who have expressed interest in the League have any regard for Senator McCarthy or his tactics, and in view of recent findings which have disclosed his questionable integrity it would seem that their number will rapidly diminish," they added...
...their services, and fearful of their aging equipment and personnel. Time was running out, warned Premier Chen Cheng, newly designated nominee for vice president, and heir-designate to President Chiang Kaishek: "If we wait another three to five years [to counterattack the mainland], our chances of success will diminish to almost nothing." Furthermore, "the enemy will be encouraged to attack...
...Second--Begin to diminish the potential destructiveness of the world's atomic stockpiles...
Author Heilbroner sides with the optimists in his collection (though he leans to the cautious hope of Keynes far more than to the bolder hopes of Adam Smith, as adapted to modern times by Economist Friedrich Hayek). Heilbroner predicts that economics will diminish somewhat as an influence on human affairs, and that morals and politics will reassert themselves more strongly. Capitalism's big problem, he feels, is not really economic, but political-the "problem of establishing itself as the arsenal, not only of production, but also of hope and meaningful freedom to the anonymous hundreds of millions...