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...conference on "Understanding the Cold War" (sponsored, December 2 and 3, by the American Friends Service Committee, The Committee of Correspondence, and Tocsin), professor Stuart Hughee commented that during his visit to the USSR, just after the U-2 incident, many Russians assured him that they had no hostile images of the US: that indeed they objected to Khruschchev's demolition of the summit. From this evidence professor Hughes concluded that, if we could only rid our polley makers and ourselves of our own hostile image of the USSR, we would have made a major step toward world peace...
...hostile propaganda of its own government than by the present injustice of ours. The assumption that Images are the spurs of policy may also create such misconceptions as the one (expressed by both professor Hughes and professor Riesman) that the only really significant difference between the US and the USSR is in their attitude towards personal liberty. This statement is untrue. In fact, if the significance is construed as pertaining to the cold war and the possibility of disarmament, then internal attitudes toward personal liberty become almost irrelevant. There is a final danger, "Image" is a Madison Avenue term...
...problems of the following kind: "we would not have another nation capable of carrying out policy 'X' willy-nilly without regard for us." (Russia does not want a reunited, re-armed Germany that might again, roll east: the US does not wish a Cuban government so allied to the USSR that it might allow Soviet missiles on its territory.) One solution is to deny the objection to policy 'X,' For example, professor Hughes argued that "we must realize that the balance between communism and quasi-capitalism will not come into any sort of permanent equilibrium until communism has advanced vastly...
...sufficient to castigate distrustful "images": rather, it is necessary to replace them with counter-images based upon a detailed analysis of the opponent's internal structure, national aims, and extant capacities. In other words we cannot simply insist that the US give up its conception of China and the USSR as aggressors--and even Dulles did not have such a naive view of our opponents. Instead, a full, complex, and trustworthy analysis of these nations must be produced, such that we can with confidence desist from needless threatening counter-moves...
...This trend toward a world of men directed by chines (both in the US and the USSR) ... will reach the point no return if we continue the race. Dangerous as our present is, we still have a chance put man back in the saddle... Erich Fromm: Unilateral ; in "," reprinted in AFSC's "Politics and peace...