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...attitudes towards art, sports. Literature, and Judaism, and the couple's statements on these topics in their posthumously collected letters were, in fact, typical of a warped agit-prop sensibility. Both Fiedler and Robert Warshow [Commentary. Nov. '53] contended that the Rosenbergs lived an existence governed solely by their Communism, and that this was somehow disgusting. But even though the critics' background held traces of the Rosenbergs' Bronx roots, they weren't concerned at all with the process by which the couple's beliefs invaded the very marrow of their lives. The spies made adult choices, the wrong ones...
They constitute in many ways an odd couple, an improbable partnership. There is Nixon, 60, champion of Middle American virtues, a secretive, aloof yet old-fashioned politician given to oversimplified rhetoric, who founded his career on gut-fighting anti-Communism but has become in his maturity a surprisingly flexible, even unpredictable statesman. At his side is Kissinger, 49, a Bavarian-born Harvard professor of urbane and subtle intelligence, a creature of Cambridge and Georgetown who cherishes a never entirely convincing reputation as an international bon vivant and superstar. Yet together in their unique symbiosis?Nixon supplying power and will, Kissinger...
Brezhnev stopped just short of reading the Chinese Communist party out of the Communist movement. But the widening gulf between Communism's two giants was never more evident than in Brezhnev's pointed reference to a nonaggression pact offered Peking by Moscow in 1971. The offer, said Brezhnev, was designed "to assume clear, firm and permanent commitments ruling out a conventional, nuclear or missile attack by one country on the other." The Chinese ignored the proposal, in effect rejecting it. Yet, Brezhnev charged, Peking was willing to enter "the most unprincipled alignments with even the most reactionary forces...
...exploring specific points of concern and discontent, the Potomac survey, like others, found that public interest has turned inward in recent years. Inflation, domestic violence, drug addiction and general crime topped the list of worries. Viet Nam was only fifth. Communism as a threat at home or abroad ranked twenty-second. Only 52% favored coming to the defense of America's major European allies should they be attacked by the Soviet Union; just 43% favored an armed defense of Japan if attacked by either Russia or China. A resounding 73% agreed with this statement: "We shouldn't think...
...John Foster Dulles drew up a pact providing $85 million in economic aid and $141 million in military aid in exchange for U.S. air and naval bases in Spain. It was the high point of Franco's long career. "The West needs us in the fight against Communism," he boasted to a Falange meeting in Madrid...