Word: russianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Breakthrough's Edge. In the wake of the President's statement, some critics, e.g., New York Herald Tribune Columnist Stewart Alsop, assumed that the "hard line" staffers who doubt the value of Russian promises on disarmament had won some sort of "battle for the President's mind." The Alsop story was that Strauss brought Scientists Teller, Lawrence and Mills to see the President to clinch the arguments for keeping the tests. Actually the scientists came to see Ike in his capacity of chief of state. And they came under the auspices not only...
When the U.N. Disarmament Subcommittee doggedly assembled in London last March, most observers conceded it no more chance than any other of the innumerable futile sessions the West had held with the Russians over the past eleven years. Europeans remarked sagely that the Eisenhower Administration had found an ideal job for Harold Stassen-all talk and no action. But the slow recognition that this time the Russians might be serious* has made everyone suddenly cautious. The Russians had accepted, at least in broadest principle, Eisenhower's "open skies" inspection and offered for the first time to admit international observers...
...manpower and armaments by the major powers (e.g., U.S. and Russia to 1,700,000 men apiece), plus inspections and bans on the import and export of arms, and checks on troop movements. European nations have worried lest the U.S., by nuclear disarmament alone, might leave them defenseless against Russian superiority in "classical" arms...
Last week Stassen methodically filled in the details of the U.S. plan in London, day by day. He proposed an immediate cut of U.S. and Russian forces to 2,500,-ooo each (an old figure that both sides have used at one time or another). A second-and third-stage cut bringing troop strength down to 1,700,000 could be left to the future and would depend on "political conditions...
Fingers were still crossed. The proposition was not that the U.S. should scrap any of its military potential in exchange for a Russian promise to do the same, but to find out whether reciprocal, safeguarded moves are 1) feasible, 2) possible...