Word: threats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Skeptically he looked at a ballyhooed consumer demand. "In this frenzied buying orgy now going on, thousands of consumers are duplicating orders." Inflated demand will collapse when goods start flowing. He saw a more immediate threat to inflated markets: "Increased prices will provoke buyers' strikes...
...body reached agreement on a major political issue dividing the great powers ; the report on Spain was weak, but it established the precedent for stronger ones to follow." The subcommittee (Australia, Poland, France, China and Brazil) went along with the U.S.-British view that Franco was not a "threat to peace" in the sense that he planned attack. They went along, too, with the Russian view that Franco had been an Axis plotter and that the very existence of such a government constituted a "potential" menace...
...inventing the tenuous notion of a threat-of-a-threat, the subcommittee had achieved at least a promise-of-a-promise of world order...
...Threat of Retaliation. Whether or not a world atomic agreement is reached, the authors round the globe. While some sciencetists think that an atomic-arms race is the most dreadful thing that could happen, The Absolute Weapon's text argues that it would be still more dreadful for only one nation to have bombs-for only then could they be used with impunity. "In the atomic age the threat of retaliation is probably the strongest single means of determent...
...Threat of Stalemate. In developing this theme The Absolute Weapon's text refutes the rather silly title. The atom can and will be fitted into military and political strategy, like all other weapons. A surprise atom-bomb attack could make Pearl Harbor look like a mere raid, but continental areas such as the U.S. and Russia are too great for immediate knock-out blows. A surprised but still surviving nation with atomic stockpiles could in its turn destroy the aggressor's cities and industries. After the first heavy devastation, both sides would have to fight minus most...