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...daughter. Follett makes good use of a taut if predictable double subplot to forward Feliks' machinations and throw Cabinets, kings and boudoirs into turmoil. The denouement, in which all the major characters and half the British constabulary descend on Walden Hall for the signing of the Anglo-Russian pact, is one of Follett's finest, with a staccato performance by the deceptively cherubic young Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty. Winston's connivance is echoed in a scene at 10 Downing Street, in which Prime Minister Herbert Asquith and his advisers pass "the Balkans around like...
...time to make progress. The left-wingers, however, would not go along with this maneuver. At local party meetings, they presented a battery of motions opposing the Doppelbeschluss. The left's main hope is pinned on a proposal for a total freeze on all new NATO and Warsaw Pact intermediate-range missiles until the Geneva negotiations end. Says Erhard Eppler, a leader of the peace movement and one of Schmidt's main critics within the S.P.D.: "The two-track decision has one major fault. It is meant to pressure the Soviets, but not the Americans...
...then quickly, as Lottman shows, it was over Hitler and Stalin signed their non-aggression pact, alienating the communists from the rest of the Left. Even without the "communist dilemma," the intelligentsia was split between those who wanted to fight fascism and those whose most fervent desire was to avoid war. And in the end, words were no match for German guns' Paris fell and with it unity...
...that nuclear weapons represent. His analysis of that dilemma is solid enough. He points out that despite all the fancy refinements in the theory of nuclear deterrence over the years, what it still comes down to is mutual assured destruction; the superpowers are essentially still bound by a suicide pact. "Nuclear deterrence begins by assuming, correctly, that victory is impossible," Schell writes. "Thus, the logic of the deterrence strategy is dissolved by the very event-the first strike-that it is meant to prevent. Once the action begins, the whole doctrine is self-cancelling." That much even the President...
...Frankfurt pact is unlikely to mean renewed Western lending to the rest of financially strapped Eastern Europe. The Soviet bloc owed the West some $80.7 billion at the end of 1981, up 11.4% from 1980. Major debtors include Rumania, Hungary and the German Democratic Republic. Rumania, which owes $9.6 billion, missed an agricultural-loan payment of $5.5 million earlier this year, but it has since been paid...