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...solely because it ultimately would result in a painful decrease in our national security and well-being) and that another nation would indeed carry out policy 'X' if it could (because it would mean a gain in their security and well-being). I believe that the roots of the East-West conflict lie in exactly such situations--and that there are many of them. Obviously in this case an everly favorable image of the opponent is dangerous. The real problem is to find ways of denying a nation the capacity to harm us, without reserting to the threat of nuclear...
...founders of the United Nations emphasized the "grave responsibility" of Third Force nations to help resolve the cold war and the East-West power struggle in a Twentieth Century Week address last night at Sanders Theatre...
...East-West border dispute, of course, is what rips apart the lives of the several characters who would otherwise be a happy family. Anna (Eva Kotthaus) an earthy heroine who wears her soul in her face, works in a Communist factory and looks after her war-ravaged grandparents. She has an illegitimate son by a dead war hero. Her son lives with his prosperous grandparents in the Western zone. Anna kidnaps the little boy from his grandparents, but she loses him in transport; when a Western policeman (Eric Schuman) risks his job to return the child, the two fall hopelessly...
...black leaders of Africa's emerging new nations endlessly complain that the outside world too often judges whose side they are on in the East-West struggle by whose aid they accept. Guinea's Red-leaning President Sékou Touré loudly proclaims that he is on no side, stubbornly insists he signed up for aid from Russia ($35 million) and Red China ($25 million) and brought in scores of Communist technicians, simply because he needed the money and expert advice...
Drift to Indecision. Unsure of his allies, Adenauer for once faced East-West affairs with irresolution. At Berlin, the Communists were edging in on the Western position by what Mayor Brandt now called "artichoke tactics"-taking a leaf at a time. In violation of four-power agreements but obviously with Soviet approval, East German Communists have applied one small pressure after another-not against Allied personnel, not even against West Berliners, but against West Germans. For two months now, they have been determining who could and who could not enter East Berlin; and by refusing to accept West German passports...