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To that end he has emphasized both race and color in his attempt to win friends and alliances. Red China has always dreamed of one day employing Indonesia's oil, Thailand's rice, even Japan's technology, as fuel for a huge Asian alliance that could safely...
Though it boasts one of the world's highest living standards, German-speaking Liechtenstein is in every happy sense a have-not nation: it has no unemployment, slums, Communists, crime, TV or radio station, airports, divorces or billboards. Neutral in both world wars, it has had no soldiers since...
High Losses. Have-not governments usually justify their expropriations by claiming that they can do more for their people than foreigners. All too often, however, expropriation leads only to money-losing bureaucracy and featherbedding, frightens off new foreign investors and inspires the remaining ones to kick up their prices to...
Looking Out. The U.S. made no secret of its stand on the Common Market. In Washington, President Kennedy asked: "What kind of a Europe do they want? Do they want one looking out or looking in? What do they see as the balance of forces in the world today?" He...
In this discussion of economics, Toynbee blandly ignores Communism's ugliest aspect-its totalitarianism. His implication: a have-not nation is entitled to totalitarian methods to catch up with the haves-an argument that was also used to justify Hitler. Gibbon, pondering the collapse of civilization among the ruins...