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...Soviet Union is no weaker than the U.S. Any adventure connected with unleashing a new world war will inevitably end badly for the aggressor. What will perish will not be world civilization . . . but that rotten social system with its imperialist basis soaked in blood...
...Dulles, back from his eighth transatlantic trip in twelve months, was able to report to the U.S. that plans for Europe's defense had entered a new phase. Tactical atomic weapons (e.g., atomic howitzers and small rockets) now make it possible to halt a Red army ground attack: "The aggressor would be thrown back at the threshold" of Western Europe. The 14 NATO nations that discussed this with Dulles are agreed on how this threshold defense shall be coordinated. Said Dulles: "Thus we see the means of achieving what the people of Western Europe have long sought?that...
There are many who claim that the United Nations can never be an effective agency for keeping the peace unless the veto is completely abolished. Only then could instant collective action against an aggressor be taken on a world-wide scale. In theory, this is true. But today, at least, there simply is no great power which would commit its forces to action anywhere in the world if such action clashed directly with its national interests. In this country, for instance, a revision of the UN Charter would need Senate approval like any other treaty. And a body which almost...
GREAT numbers of well-intentioned, idealistic persons have accepted the contention that peace and order can be secured only by binding the "peace-loving" nations in an agreement to use their armed forces in concert to restrain or punish an aggressor. The collective security idea was inserted into the Charter of the United Nations. But the member states in the U.N. have never been willing to provide the forces. And as for "collective security" from common action by national armies, the Security Council veto takes care of that. Yet regional pacts as instruments of collective security are as illusory...
...major nation, and one only, has been pronounced "aggressor" by the United Nations. That nation is Red China...