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...from so. From its inception, NATO has stood for peace, not in the sense of open war delayed by a standoff in the arms race, but in the sense of peace achieved through an expanding state of justice and understanding. In contrast, the Soviet system imposes upon the great mass of its workers a harsh, menacing discipline which drives blindly but inevitably toward concentration on new weapons, including missiles and atomic warheads. The Communists have also enlarged their industrial capacity and dared the West to a world economic contest...
...little straighter." Flinty old (83) Poet Frost proved to Pundit Reston that he is no slacker at punditry himself. Frost welcomes the struggle and decision-making that make life tough-and neither the Russians, nor their satellites (terrestrial or spatial) upset him a bit: "We ought to enjoy a standoff. Let it stand and deepen in meaning. Let's not be hasty about showdowns. Let's be patient and confident with our country." As optimistic as he is individualistic, Robert Frost summed up his poet's-eye view of the U.S.: "I stand here at the window...
...General Lauris Norstad once called "absolute" destruction on Russia. This capacity-the ability to smash Russia from close up and hence to destroy her more thoroughly than she could hope to destroy the U.S.-has been the ultimate deterrent to Russian military adventures. If the day of an ICBM standoff and of equal capacity for destruction is now dawning, new force will be given to Stalin's dictum to Roosevelt at Yalta: "Neither of us wants war, but our strength is that you fear it more." Protected-at least in their own mind-by the umbrella of U.S. fear...
That Left-Out Feeling. Even if the Russians should resist this temptation, the prospect of a U.S.-Soviet ICBM standoff gave Europeans a nervous, left-out feeling. "The two big boys," said an official of West Germany's Defense Ministry, "must in the very nature of the situation lift their eyes and look straight across at one another, not noticing the in-betweens like ourselves so much. The arrival of long-range rockets implies the devaluation of American bases abroad and hence the downgrading of places like Germany. As a concomitant, one must assume less interest in such suddenly...
...first the trial of strength was a standoff: three successive politicians tried to form a new Cabinet, and failed. After three days Nabulsi and his pro-Communist allies called out the mob. In Amman and the crowded cities of Palestinian Jordan, schoolboys started demonstrations in which thousands of refugees quickly joined. Some voices cried: "Down with the Eisenhower Doctrine." But most of the crowds shouted for the return of Nabulsi's Cabinet...