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...with oil? Can seasonal businesses or industries carry the GAW load? What if public taste veers away from goods produced by some outfit which has a GAW setup? Then, too, there is the fear, expressed by many who doubt the feasibility of GAW, that it will operate chiefly to impel employers to hire as few workers as they can. Certainly guaranteed annual wages for workers are fine, if feasible...
This blind and touching belief, and the rising expectations that impel it, have been seized upon by the Communists as a powerful lever of influence. From Moscow and Peking, Communism is held out as a short cut to material progress. Recently John Foster Dulles warned Americans that the Communists' "cruel system . . . does have a certain fascination for the peoples of underdeveloped countries who feel that their own economies are standing still." The danger is that those who compulsively hunger for economic advance will opt for the Communist alter native, if democracy's methods are too slow...
...read several of his own poems from a collection entitled "Chire, seventy-one poems." These represented different expressions of his main theme: what forces impel the artist to create. He compared the attitude of the artist to that of a lover toward his beloved, and a worshipper toward...
...gain from her atom bomb if it scared Europe's people into clamoring for appeasement of Communism, but the West itself stood to gain more: a new clarity of common purpose. The atom bomb in Russian hands was something so ominously specific that it was almost certain to impel a brand of Western unity which otherwise might be years in the forging. Plain common peril might be translated into plain common courage. Moscow's atom-smashing made obsolete no major part of a political strategy that embraced the Atlantic pact, U.S. military aid to Europe, and restoration...
...speech, though it was easy to overestimate its importance, nevertheless gave away the real reason for Russia's peace offensive. None of the defeats Communism had suffered were decisive and all could be nullified in a matter of weeks by Western bungling; but they were enough to impel Communism 1) to seek a breathing space for reorganization and political refueling; 2) to try lulling the Western powers into a false sense of security...