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...said Fulbright, even if the Russians have no plans for open warfare, "neither are they likely to commit fatal blunders of judgment which will lead to defeat and destruction." He said that in taking account of Russia, the United States must bear in mind that it is dealing with a nation accustomed to "patience, circumspection, and flexibility...
...Fulbright discussed East-West relations not only in terms of maintaining the borders as they now stand, but also with respect to the questions that might be raised by a shift favoring the West in the balance of power...
...trend in this direction has been evident in the affairs of the West since the end of World War II, Fulbright declared. In the current revival of Western Europe, he saw a potential continuance of the trend toward democratic solidification, but also a potential crisis; and he foreshadowed the substance of tonight's lecture by nothing that whether the West "fulfills the promise of unity or becomes divided against itself" is the most important of all United States foreign policy questions...
...even if Western unity is possible, achieving it will by no means solve all the West's problems, Fulbright predicted. In fact, he suggested that "the narrowing of the horizons of Soviet ambition in the face of growing Western strength and unity could conceivably lead irresponsible or incompetent leaders into some desperate gamble to reverse the tide." The dangers, Fulbright said, are obvious: "When a great power is confronted with an increasingly unfavorable disequilibrium in the scales of world power, it may be tempted to act rashly to reverse the trend...
...Fulbright admitted that he does not know "precisely how the West can deal with this potential problem," but he saw hope that the West, by keeping before the Russian people the contrast between reality and the illusions of Marxist theory, could win the Communist nations away from "the dream of a world remade in the Soviet image...