Word: indirection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said that acceptance of presents by government officials should depend on good taste. A more pristine view might be adopted, however, to guard against graft and avoid any public misconceptions. No matter what the motive, all large gifts, whether beavers or just plain gold watches, tend to look like indirect payoffs for favors and thus discredit the government...
...highly developed and less developed countries, are known to us all. Among the more recent are the methods applied in nationalizing properties of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co., in expropriating the United Fruit Co. properties by Guatemala, and finally in expropriating the Suez Canal." Abs also cited instances of indirect interferences with the rights of private foreign capital. Among them: the withholding of essential raw materials, the refusal of import licenses and excessive taxation...
...There is only one means apt to implement such protection, and that is an International Convention by which all contracting parties, both typical capital-export and capital-import countries, undertake to treat foreign capital and other foreign interests fairly and without discrimination and to abstain from direct or indirect illegal interferences with such investment...
...military policy against Soviet expansion, says Kissinger, has been inhibited by "our notion of aggression as an unambiguous act [i.e., a direct attack on the U.S. or Western Europe] and our concept of war as inevitably an all-out struggle" resulting in the enemy's "unconditional surrender." Against indirect Communist aggression by "internal subversion, intervention by 'volunteers,' domination through political and psychological warfare," U.S. doctrine has no flexible alternative between total war and peaceful inaction, because it is geared to "total" concepts. Neither psychologically nor militarily has the U.S. been willing to take risks or properly shape...
This notion, as Chiang sees it, means paralysis. The West, moreover, ought to stop coddling neutralist nations. Instead, its overall policy should be a coordinated campaign of "indirect warfare" for "liberation" of the peoples enslaved by the new-Red imperialism. This drive should be pushed on all fronts-political, economic, social, psychological, military. Chiang strongly implies that his Formosa army and other anti-Communist Asian forces should be allowed to attack Red China in Russia's rear-without open U.S. involvement. He also suggests that this could be done without provoking a general war. (Such notions, Chiang concedes with...