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...never, of course, tumbled down quite so completely as many of the West's optimistic exponents of detente had supposed. Last week, as the U.S. and Soviet Foreign Ministers addressed the United Nations' General Assembly, each enjoined the other not to intrude on his country's sphere of influence. Secretary of State Dean Rusk stressed the U.S. resolve to protect West Germany and West Berlin from aggression. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko emphasized the Soviet Union's determination to retain its hold on Eastern Europe and warned that Russia would not allow any outsider "to snatch...
...British periodical, The New Statesman, has claimed that the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. have carved out spheres of influence for themselves and agreed to respect them," he said. "This sort of agreement, if it existed, would mean that the U.S. could do anything it wanted in its sphere, which includes the Dominican Republic, while the U.S.S.R. would have a free hand in its sphere, which includes Eastern Europe," he said...
...World's a Sphere...
...reach specific accommodations, it will not prove that either is turning soft. Each respects the other's power. Each knows the price and the risks of an endless arms race and repeated confrontations. Thus each concedes to the other, however bitterly, a degree of latitude within its own sphere. The system is not ideal, and it is certainly not moral, but it has one unassailable virtue: so far, it has worked. Also, it can buy time for men like Alexander Dubcek, and others inside and outside the Communist domain, to continue striving, in some form, for freedom...
...their retaliation moves, the Germans wiped out the entire village of Lidice. After Germany's defeat, Benes took his regime to Prague and started anew. He faced tremendous obstacles. At the Yalta Conference in 1945, Roosevelt and Churchill acceded to Stalin's demand that Czechoslovakia fall into his sphere of influence after the war. As a result, when General George Patton's tanks prepared to liberate Prague in the war's closing days, orders came from Allied headquarters to halt. The Russians got the honor of freeing the capital. In their wake came cadres of Czechoslovak Communists who had spent...