Word: prospect
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INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC CONTROL. There is little prospect of stable peace while two or more inimical sovereign govern ments have uncontrolled power over the manufacture and use of atomic weapons. The U.S. proposed international control even when it had a monopoly, but the U.S.S.R. has persistently refused to agree to the thorough inspection that would be necessary to make control effective. The U.S.S.R. wants to "abolish" atomic weapons, i.e., it wants to sign a toothless agreement which a democratic country would keep, but which the U.S.S.R. could ignore...
...that the Russians say about collective leadership, it is still obvious that in Moscow now there is no "highest level." The mystical belief that a Churchill-Malenkov meeting could dissolve the solid differences that an Eden-Molotov meeting would merely register has lost all content today when the prospect is an Eden-Bulganin or Attlee-Bulganin meeting. No British government can undertake to ease an anxious world of its fears merely by convening a new conference. It obviously cannot liquidate the armed might or shatter the dogmatic ambitions of the Soviet system, and while these things remain there...
...students of the war-ravaged high school on Hamburg's grey Thedestrasse, the prospect of ever getting a proper place to play seemed just about hopeless. Then, one day in 1950, Teacher Walter Pareik spotted an ad in a local paper: a certain farmer was offering to pay 2.20 Deutsche Marks (52?) for no Ibs. of potato peels for hog feed. If one farmer was willing to spend that kind of money, reasoned Teacher Pareik, why not others? Perhaps the Thedestrasse high school should go into business...
...United States, as the leader of the Western coalition, the present Soviet policy offers an almost insoluble paradox. If we withdraw our present objections to trade between the two camps of Europe, we face the unpleasant prospect of seeing our potential enemies materially strengthened. On the other hand, if we object to East-West trade which would obviously be beneficial to our allies, we will see even a further increase in European charges that the United States is meddluing in domestic politics that do not concern it; ultimately we might awaken to find that a once-strong alliance had crumbled...
...measure remains on the House calendar and can be called up whenever its supporters desire. Vinson expected no action for at least three weeks, however, or until there is more prospect for a compromise...