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Russia's objective in a war would therefore be to "defend its interests add to destroy challenges to its economic independence." Should Russia be victorious, the terms of surrender could provide for the United States' expansionist compulsion...
...principles did not have a prayer. One of their principal sins was wild territorial expansion, such as smirched Founding Fathers Thomas Jefferson and Ben Franklin ("It is difficult to think of Franklin as a scientist if only because he invested so much time and intelligence in land speculation"). This expansionist drive brought on the Civil War as well as World War II, says Williams, and has been checked now only because Russia has nuclear bombs. Other sins of the greedy guys: the policy of "laissez nous faire," carried on in the name of individualism but really to line the pockets...
Fleming, who is about to bring in the government's new budget, insisted: "Mr. Coyne's continuation in office would stand in the way of a comprehensive, sound and responsible economic program. The government's policy is expansionist. The policies advocated by Mr. Coyne are restrictionist-restrictive of trade, of production, of jobs...
Behind the scheme lay the fear that twelve poor, relatively small countries might not long survive alone among such expansionist wheeler-dealers as Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana and Sékou Touré of Guinea. Guiding spirit of the conference was Ivory Coast's able President Félix Houphouet-Boigny, 55, who had years of experience in the French National Assembly, has become ex-French Africa's most influential statesman...
Even the European Coal & Steel Community, long the shining practical example of a European readiness to surrender some sovereignty, has come upon hard times. For its first six years, its member nations (France, Germany, Italy and Benelux) went along cheerfully with its expansionist schemes to abolish coal and steel tariffs and to outlaw cartels. But in the past six months, slackening European demand for coal, plus U.S. competition, has stacked up 30 million tons of unsold coal (TIME, March 2 et seq.). Fortnight ago, when the High Authority of the community ordered its members to restrict the production and import...