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...them under the banner of 'proletarian internationalism.' In Eastern Europe, the invasion of Czechoslovakia has polarized the struggle for economic and political reform within the Communist movement. The diversity of Communist parties, the lack of relevance of the doctrine to specific problems, and the internal pressures?economic, military and political???within the Soviet Union have raised the question: What is Communism today? Some Kremlinologists suggest that the best way to seek an answer is to view the Soviet Union as a latter-day empire seeking to maintain its sway...
Though Shoup maintains that many U.S. officers saw the Viet Nam war as a chance to field-test new weapons and season a generation of career soldiers, the experience seems more an example of military?and political???misjudgment than of calculated aggressiveness. The military, which oversold Lyndon Johnson on the efficiency of air power against North Viet Nam, can be faulted; so can the State Department, which insisted that Ho Chi Minh, despite his Soviet training and his country's history of resistance to Chinese influence, was little more than Peking's puppet. But the final decisions lay with...
...Weeks attempted a practical solution of this question. There is little doubt that Henry Ford won. But the question is not answered. Mr. Ford accused Secretary Weeks of being "a Boston bond broker, in politics for a pastime." Others were outspoken in declaring that Mr. Ford's abuse was political???with the sole object of promoting Henry Ford as a Presidential candidate in 1924. The whole matter rose out of Muscle Shoals. During the War the Government built a dam at Muscle Shoals, Ala., and two plants for the manufacture of nitrates for explosives. The project is not yet completed...