Word: threats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britain, I am sure, has little if any "fat in the fire" where Greece is concerned, and with pressure being applied at home and abroad would probably thankfully withdraw all her troops and services but for the threat of an ever-expanding Russia in this last stronghold of Western culture and Western-type democracy ... in the Balkan nations...
Over the steel industry hung the threat of a strike. Similar threats hung over the auto industry, the telephone system, the railroads. They were only twitchings, but not to be disregarded on that account. Another industrial convulsion such as shook the country in 1945-1946 would not only wreck the nation's prestige when prestige was so important in world politics, it might shake the whole rickety world right down to its boots...
...This indeed appears to be the Russian proposal. It is almost incredible that renovation of German heavy industry should be proposed so soon after the end of the war. Regardless of the products that such industry might turn out at first, this eventually can become nothing less than a threat of great war-making potential. The only alternative method of meeting reparations payments lies in stripping German agriculture and light industry to such a degree that they would be unable to to provide for even basic German needs...
...transcendent power concentrated in atomic weapons makes politically possible . . . the domination of the world by a single sufficiently large state, provided that state holds the monopoly of atomic weapons. The threat of mutual destruction by atomic weapons of all the states that might possess them, assuming that there are more than one, makes certain that each such state will strive to acquire the monopoly. But a monopoly of atomic weapons can be secured only by gaming world domination...
...between Russia and the U.S., and that Russia would win such a war even though the U.S. had superiority in atomic weapons. In the absence of a strong U.S. political policy to win world leadership, even a preventive war now by the U.S. against Russia would not end the threat of Communist world domination. But-just possibly-the U.S. might achieve a political policy strong enough to break the Communist drive, and thus avoid a Russian...