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Political Crisis. There was the chain reaction of political crisis. There was scarcely a political area on the map of Europe or Asia that was unthreatened within or without. In Korea, U.S.-Russian negotiations had broken down. India was in the throes of mass murder and fleeing populations. Persia, stiffened by promises of U.S. support, was resisting Russian demands. Greece (and the U.S. support of Greece) was confronted by the danger of a rival Greek Communist state, supported by Russia through her Balkan stooges. Almost anything might happen in Italy...
Russia's political and military advantage was obvious from a glance at the map. In containing Communism, the U.S. was forced to approach Russia from all sides, at widely scattered points, with widely scattered and diffused resources. Russia could strike where she wished. She was always on the offensive, the U.S. must act constantly on the defensive. Eastern Europe was gone. Russia, in effect, stood on the Elbe River and the Adriatic Sea. The rump of Europe scarcely differed in effectiveness from Europe in the 5th Century, when the Slavs had pushed to the North Sea and the Frankish...
That event in 1147 first put Moscow on the map. At the time, London was already a thriving city which had achieved trial by jury and relatively democratic city government and Vienna was coming along nicely under Margrave Henry of Babenberg, who started the building of St. Stephan's Cathedral...
...revelation of this embarrassing patrimony, bequeathed along with the family silver and several hundred slaves, is the cream of Author Williams' jest. By the time he has skimmed it, Grant has taken Richmond, hunger has become the chief enemy and the Currains have scattered all over the map...
Recently in Oxford's lively undergraduate magazine, Cherwell, he wrote: "Perhaps no one would deny that Christianity is now 'on the map' among the younger intelligentsia, as it was not, say, in 1920. Only freshmen now talk as if the anti-Christian position were self-evident. . . . [Yet] we must remember that widespread and lively interest in the subject is precisely what we call a fashion. . . . Whatever . . . mere fashion has given us, mere fashion will presently withdraw. The real conversions will remain, but nothing else will. In that sense we may be on the brink of a real...