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...weight of issues, therefore, would seem to tip the election balance to the Conservatives. Britain called in the Socialists after the War because its economy required strict domestic reforms, but now they are unwanted. Both parties have had to promise to tread softly in foreign matters, because the present state of word affairs does not sanction radical changes. Bevan has recognized how this lack of glaring issues has weakened Labour's appeal; he last week came out for a neutralized and disarmed Germany. But the Socialists have found themselves unable to follow him. Nonetheless, an election is not won until...
...best chance to bring a lasting peace to Europe. Furthermore, a neutral, reunified and rearmed Germany would hold tremendous power to play East and West off against each other, and might thereby emerge once more as a danger to peace. Finally, by freeing a rearmed Germany from the strict control of the NATO command, the West loses control over the German army which might again, as after Versailles, spark a return to militaristic nationalism...
Sukhanov refused to become a Bolshevik and regarded Lenin and Trotsky as brazen adventurers, ignorant of the mas ter role of economics in "scientific Socialism." By October, Lenin and Trotsky were more intent on seizing power than sticking to strict Marxist theory. Ironically, they decided on a coup d'état in Sukhanov's own flat; Lenin showed up, still incognito, wearing a wig and without beard. Two weeks later, in what is known as the October revolution, the Bolsheviks marched friendly troops to key points and Trotsky sneeringly consigned opposition party members to the "dustbin of history...
When Pennsylvania's outgoing Republican Governor John Fine last year said that the state urgently needed some $300 million in new taxes, no one was more indignant than George Leader, Democratic candidate for governor. Efficient (Democratic) administration and strict (Democratic) economies, cried Leader, would solve Pennsylvania's fiscal problems. He won election by campaigning against new "broad-base" taxes, including income taxes...
...could: 1) offer to disarm to any limit the other powers would be willing to go to under strict regulation; 2) propose to ban mass-destruction weapons if others would agree to cheat-proof supervision and inspection; 3) suggest that the United States would agree with others and with adequate guarantees of compliance to limit the proportion of key resources that could be used for arms so that more could go into peaceful goods; 4) reiterate the right of civilized peoples everywhere to governments of their own choosing, at free elections, by secret ballot and without outside interference; 5) emphasize...