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...talking nonsense when we speak of a national defense policy," Teller said, "because in this country the sovereign power--the people--remain uninformed...
...criticizes, Hughes is too often rhetorical rather than substantive. In his first and last chapters especially he indulges himself with writing like this (describing the sources of his enthusiasm for Eisenhower): "it had been decreed by all things first bringing me to this political scene--all the untidy but sovereign miscellany of one's own convictions and commitments, granite beliefs and fragile fancies, clean perceptions and gray illusions." Like the magazine he's worked for too long, he insists, in his style, on making life out to be better than...
...Fulbrigt's analysis the Gaullist design, though "bold and even creative in tactics," has objectives that are "profoundly conservative." He described the Gaullist program as an attempt to restore the "classical balance -of-power system," a "precarious equilibrium" between"separate sovereign entities." The world that De Gaulle imagines, Fulbright said, is exactly analogous to the Europe of a hundred years ago, except that the sovereign entities of the 19th century were individual nations, while those of the Gaullist system would be the "super- states" of North America, Europe, and the Communist bloc...
Fulbright contrasted this view with the conception of Europe and America as a unified community. "The idea of Atlantic partnership," he said, "is an attempt to come to grips with the basic realities of the twentieth century." He argued that an international system depending on sovereign entities "has become an intolerably dangerous anachronism," maintaining that the system which "worked tolerably well to prevent or limit war before 1914" has by now broken down irreparably...
...said, "there are two groups in this country: those who want one world under the U.N., complete disarmament in the form of a single world army; and those who want America to remain sovereign. And as far as I know there's only one nation that has as its aim a single world government, and that's the Soviet Union...