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...that if we're going to reverse the nuclear arms race, the general trend of more and more and more, the technological push, the technological imperative, what we need to do is begin to dismantle a part of the structure that has propelled the nuclear arms race in the post-war period, and that is what we have to begin to dismantle. Let's call it the American dominance of NATO. I think that West Germany, for example, has to be encouraged in its reorientation of the expansion of its interests towards the East, towards the Soviet Union, that...
Nacht: The post-war period, with all of its grief, has been a period of peace for 37 years....There have not [been] many periods of 37 years of peace. The principal reason for the peace in my own view is that the United States has had the military force to deter the Soviet Union for attack--either with conventional or nuclear weapons, and because, in part, Germany has been divided and Japan has been militarily weak and under the American nuclear umbrella. It may be that there are other worlds that are better than this world...
...more recent times, media coverage has elevated the power and prestige of the harvard microphone making it appropriate for students of truly international significance. Perhaps the most famous example was Gen. George C. Marshall's 1947 pronouncement of the Marshall Plan, the U.S. contribution to the rebuilding of post-war Europe and a major first step in the Cold War. Few in attendance that year recognized the plan for what it was however. Mason Hammond 25, Pope Professor of the Latin Language and Literature Emeritus, who as the "caller" of the academic procession has attended Commencements regularly since before World...
...disturbing. Unemployment among blacks is a record 17.4%. The rate for teen-agers was 21.7% (for nonwhite teenagers the figure is a shocking 39.6%). "Discouraged workers," who have not looked for work in the previous four weeks and thus are not included in the monthly unemployment totals, reached a post-war high of 1.2 million during the last three months of 1981, up from 1.05 million the year before. And the number of people working part time, because their hours were cut below 35 a week or because they were unable to find full-time work, grew to a record...
Government subsidy of the arts began in Britain in 1945, when the post-war administration sought to boost the morale of a battle-scarred population during the difficult and painful work of reconstruction. "We have developed the public service in arts much more than you have," says Sir Roy, who has spent about 25 years of his life teaching adults and lecturing on adult education. The assumption is that art can tangibly improve the quality of a person's life--stimulating and sharpening his imagination, so, in the words of British playwright Arnold Wesker, he can make "imaginative leaps...