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...Moscow's promise to deliver MIG fighters to embattled India. In an outburst at "modern revisionism." meaning the Khrushchev line, Peking's People's Daily vilified the Kremlin's Cuban policy as "sinister and venomous, disgraceful." and seeking "to befuddle the Cuban people and mentally disarm them." The paper urged a "headon" confrontation with the U.S. instead of a "barter" of Communist principles. Next day. Red Flag, official organ of the Chinese Central Committee, taunted Khrushchev with the accusation that "the modern revisionists are scared stiff of the 'policy of strength' of U.S. imperialism...
Rumors & Plots. Inevitably, some wild rumors spread: an Arizona investor heard that President Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev had agreed to disarm; a Washington stockholder had a hot tip that the U.S. was about to invade Laos; others understood that Russia had dumped American securities in Switzerland to ruin the U.S. market. Just as inevitably, there was talk about some gigantic plot. In Los Angeles, retired Newspaperman John Gray, 87, who held on to his falling Southern California Edison stock, said: "The whole thing was started by people who wanted to discredit the President. They sold off huge chunks of stock...
Doubting "the credibility of America's disarm," David Riesman, Henry Professor of Social Sciences, others have urged the of "a national will and a governmental mandate for disarmament." They recommended a series of American initiatives in a 5000-word mimeographed statement released Saturday...
...same old We-They world, with the disconcerting difference that he is now a They, while the Communist peasants he is fighting seem to him to be little blokes. In a brilliantly described jungle patrol, Brian, alone, is attacked by one of them. He manages to disarm...
McCloy nevertheless hopes that mutual self-interest may eventually induce the Soviet Union and the U.S. to disarm. There is no sign of this at Geneva. At best, the two nations might negotiate some very limited accords, such as efforts to stop the spread of weapons to other countries. According to its present concept of "self-interest," Russia simply cannot afford to disarm. In a world truly free from the threat of nuclear war, Communism could not hold its gains. In Berlin, in the satellites, and possibly in China, it is largely the nuclear threat that keeps the West from...