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...clock Edwin J. Jacobs '47 and Ronald G. Newburgh '46, representing the Harvard Debating Council, will face a team from Columbia University. Taking the negative, they are to argue the question: "Resolved, That the United Nations should agree to the establishment after the war of a Russian protective sphere of influence in central and eastern Europe...
Reverberations. When the Reds crossed the Bug, they entered Rumania's military sphere (on the left bank the signposts were German, on the right Rumanian). The rumble of the crossing Russian tanks echoed to Rumania's darkest corner...
...Canada is simply one more small nation in a world dominated by the great powers. And we know that our future safety lies ultimately not inside any imperial orbit, not inside any American sphere of influence. It lies in the creation of a larger system of international law & order inside which the special ambitions and policies of even the greatest powers can be worked out. not in opposition to but in collaboration with all our neighbors...
Foreigners in Chungking listen to Kuomintang complaints that the Communists: 1) maintain their own government, army and currency, collect their own taxes, refuse to obey Chungking's mandates; 2) are more interested in extending their political sphere than in fighting Japan; 3) have exceeded their agreed-to military strength...
...must weigh an almost unanimous Little Nation vote for dismemberment against the dangers of a Europe without a single major balance wheel west of Russia. They must calculate the safety factor of German industry divided among several independent states, each leaning outward to take part in a non-German sphere, against the increased difficulty of collecting any reparations at all from a row of little Germanics...