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Memory of Metternich. Most conspicuous American advocate of this notion is Arkansas Senator J. William Fulbright, head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. In an article written weeks ago for the October issue of Foreign Affairs, Fulbright declares that the "grand innovation" of a U.N. as a global executive has failed "because it defied history and falsely assumed the existence of a community of the great powers." In the Security Council, the veto reflects the realities of power politics; in the General Assembly, anarchy rules. "A body in which Guatemala or Bulgaria exercises the same voting power as the United...
Thus emerged the "concert of Europe," conducted by Austria's Metternich-"a genuine community of nations which identified their common interests in preserving a rough balance of power and the basic integrity of the treaty ... It kept the peace for a hundred years." Fulbright's community would be limited to free nations (the "inner community" for Atlantic powers, and the "outer community" of free nations elsewhere), could start in existing institutions, such as NATO...
...simple touchstone, no all-embracing word to sum up the world organization that emerged this week from San Francisco. Augustus had sought the security of his world through Roman 'justice'; Gregory through Christian 'brotherhood'; Napoleon through 'law' and the Grand Army; Metternich through 'legitimacy'; Wilson through 'democracy.' The San Francisco conference had no comparable key; it just said 'security.' By stressing the goal rather than the path, it opened the door to all opportunities-and to all contradictions...
This was the age in which Metternich said that "the levels of man commenced with baron." Ippolita marries one-Baron Konrad von Grueber-and it becomes the ruefully comic epic of Ippolita's skinflint life to retrieve her one uncharacteristic act of giving herself to him. The baron is a madcap giant of a hussar, a Homeric drinker and eater, an impenitent gambler, an indefatigable skirt chaser. Ippolita, to whom purse strings are the only heart strings, chokes as her beans-and-mush menus give way to roast pigs, shank sausage and plump capons. She likes to dress like...
...surely destined to bring the old colonial countries into the Communist orbit" Lippmann got the impression that to Khrushchev "it is normal for a great power to undermine an unfriendly government within its own sphere of interest " deduced from this that "Khrushchev thinks much more like Richelieu and Metternich than like Woodrow Wilson...