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Bruce M. Solya '55, president of the Council, said last night that Zarubin or Semyon K. Tsarapkin, the USSR's chief deputy delegate to the UN, have indicated that they would like to appear before a Harvard audience...
...Union, of course also would never agree to give up the veto. Yet, in a conference on Charter revision, neither power would want to be branded as obstructionist. If the United States, for example either voted against a review conference or refused to consider abolition of the veto, the USSR would have an effective propaganda weapon to flaunt before the world...
...peaceful settlement of disputes, are desirable and would have a reasonable chance of passage in the senate. And a decision to abolish the veto would probably not affect the United States, for this country has always had enough supporters on the Security Council never to need the device. The USSR, on the other hand, would find its policies seriously impeded...
...imperial structure would be falsely encouraging; The Formation of the Soviet Union has a sobering effect as well. It exposes the sinews that bind the borderlands to the empire, and make a Tito-like rebellion within the Soviet Union a very dim prospect. Nearly every disruptive force inside the USSR evokes a counterforce which helps preserve stability. The dynamics of the USSR have changed very little since 1924 in this respect...
Pipes points to the importation of liberalism, socialism, nationalism, and utilitarianism from the West as intellectual ammunition for the Russian Populist movement that eventually shook the Tzarist regime. Perhaps the USSR's current eagerness to maintain control over buffer states in Eastern Europe is as much a desire to have a barrier against information as for military protection along its western border. For the European borderlands people in the Soviet Union have once shown themselves vulnerable to disturbing Western ideas of natural rights and democratic law, and they could succumb again...