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...seems now that the only way this country can keep many of the states of Europe--and most important, a united Germany--from moving into the communist periphery, if not the communist orbit, is to make equally attractive concessions. The Administration has indicated that a new era of peace may be dawning. Properly, its policies continue to be cautious. But it must learn a lesson which in these postwar years seems to have been often neglected: that caution is not incompatible with positive action...
...limit their trade with Communist China for strategic reasons. But to compensate for its former large trade with mainland China, Japan must find greater outlets in the free world. We must open our markets to Japan or risk the greatest industrial nation in Asia slipping into the Communist orbit-either by the sheer necessity of trading with the Chinese Communists, or by growing economic distress leading to internal Communist subversion...
...severe than this one, drowned 140,000 persons and left 10 million homeless. The famine that followed in its wake brought death by starvation to 52 million Chinese men, women, and children. This is the "alleged flood." But Mr. Philbrick seems to think that the people in the Soviet orbit are well fed because official Kremlin sources say so. To him China is all in the same package with the U.S.S.R. Political boundaries mean little to Mr. Philbrick in nearly as undiscriminating a way as do his ideological boundaries between organizations, here at home. He even goes...
Obviously, Messrs, Lively, Butcher and the Fellowship of Reconciliation have apparently been taken in by capitalist and anti-communist propaganda. It is clear from the statement of the Central Committee of the CPSU itself that the people in the Soviet orbit (which includes Red China) are not only well fed, but are enjoying the fruits of a system which they themselves declare to be far superior to that of "decadent Capitalist" production in the United States...
...ever been abroad. Vishinsky replied: "Not often. And the first time I left Russia, a funny thing happened. I went to Latvia. One morning there I woke up-and I was back in Russia." At war's end, he organized Rumania into the Soviet orbit. He was asked how many votes the Communists would get in a free election. Perhaps 45%, he answered casually, then, squeezing his fist, added: "With leetle pressure...