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...Tinker about U.S. immigration laws, completely overlooking Canada's equally strict screening of aliens. Canadian newspapers railed about the 7% U.S. tariff on Canadian lead, but never mentioned the 25% Canadian duty on U.S. cars. Tinker once heard a Canadian M.P. solemnly talk to a dinner audience about "trigger-happy" U.S. diplomats...
...their faces twisted in hatred and fear, confront each other across a card table. Each holds a revolver within inches of the other's breast, pointed unwaveringly at the heart. There they sit, each with the sure power to cause instant death, yet afraid to squeeze the trigger. For the one who shoots first will himself be killed-by the reflex action of a dying...
Left-wing editorialists seized on Monty's remarks to create a picture of pinheaded generals eager to trigger the world into war. Result: by the time the NATO conference got under way last week, the British and the French were talking up a plan that would require NATO's commanders to consult all 14 governments before answering a Soviet attack with atomic weapons. Such a plan would leave the West helpless during the first vital hours, while the Reds could be atom-bombing at will. John Foster Dulles put forward a compromise solution that won unanimous approval...
...start a world war; that the capacity to destroy New York and Detroit is not good enough if it results in the destruction of Moscow and Leningrad; that the Russian junta is not sufficiently in control of its own people, or secure enough from its own rivalries, to trigger World War III; that the new gang is a somewhat sedentary set of revolutionaries (compared, for example, with the cockier, more aggressive new rulers of China). Some or all of these assumptions might be fatally wrong, but they are widely held...
...good guys on TV last week were, as usual, giving the bad guys their lumps. As millions of youngsters watched in beady-eyed fascination, Roy Rogers (with the help of Dale and Trigger) got the drop on some slow-witted fur thieves; Hopalong Cassidy (with help from his younger brother ) corralled a batch of badmen who had holed up in a gold mine; the Lone Ranger (with help from Tonto and his horse Silver) outwitted a pseudo-Englishman and won an inheritance which -naturally -he promptly donated to a worthy cause...