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...Hoffmann would probably deny that the New Leader piece really constitutes a re-evaluation, since his point is that "unsettledness" is all the normalcy the UN can expect; "the world for which the Charter was written never came into being." The Cold War "world" changes the UN's raison d'etre to the necessity of avoiding nuclear war, and paradoxically, of providing one arena from which the Cold War is at least nominally barred...
...Stanley Hoffmann's remarks about Tocsin, reported in the CRIMSON this morning, probably will not "bring down a storm of wrath" from anyone; but they deserve a couple of comments...
Whether Tocsin overestimates the danger of war is a matter of personal judgment. Professor Hoffmann seems not to find the danger very great. President Kennedy, in his now-famous speech to the U.N. General Assembly, said that "every man, woman and child lives under a nuclear sword of Damocles...
...course, as Professor Hoffmann should have known, Tocsin's policy of "unilateral initiative" is designed to facilitate, within the limits of military safety, a reduction of tension to a level at which we can again pay some attention to the positive goals of foreign and domestic policy. Christopher Z. Hobson...
...headed enough to start a war if he is not disarmed, how can you believe he has suddenly become rational enough to willingly give up his arms?" An informal agreement, less restrictive of sovereignty and less threatening to security than an inspected arms ban, might have more effect, Hoffmann concluded...