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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...
...assuage by dangerous connections a nation whose enemies attitude is actually maintained mere by the 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...
...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 further...
Minor observations: Professor Riesman's statement that the men who produced the Daedalus symposium on arms control were "mad rationalists" Is incorrect, dangerously misleading, detrimental to his cause, and symptomatle of the under-current of panic which has affected some of our best minds. We have the good images: We need good ideas. The fall 1960 issue of contains Ideas in rich profusion. Professor Riesman's speech did not. His upon the importance of the virility age" In the American male, and its sense in American Motherhead, factors in our foreign policy, seems little everdone. He is correct, however about...
...bring about a stable process national interaction; (4) Focus Jor effort along the lines of arms control and eventual armament with correlated compromises; (5) Search for modes of-and new motivations International cooperation; (6) at Harvard a course in disarms stressing original papers by groups, and taught by Professor man, if possible. (My intense object to his recent contributions are suit of a conviction that he is of extraordinarily Important work field--and that he is an excellent .) , Fall 1960, must be Organizations such as Sane, Tocsin the AFSC should be given the of this newspaper...