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...pointed answer to De Gaulle: "One must rise above national egoisms. The German people are convinced that they have started, with the French nation, on a way that will allow them to get away from narrow nationalism. Europe can survive only if it is incorporated in a vaster community, the Atlantic community." Debre replied soothingly: "It is important that the French should have the feeling that there is no peace, no freedom, no future, if France and Germany do not defend the same cause...
...gone into the building of the war machine; we must think of meaningful employment for those Americans who have been heavily dependent for incentive upon military competition with the Communists. The reliance upon military deterrence, far from effectively countering Communism, has turned our attention from these problems, and the vaster problems of adequate policies to deal with world conflict. Plainly, our attitude immobilizes those elements within the Iron Curtain countries which seek increased international contact and exchange and who (notably in Poland) hope for relaxation of the Cold War as the necessary condition for slow accretions to their freedom...
Despite his best efforts, Nikita's essential boorishness occasionally broke through: to the proud director of a vast irrigation project in the Camargue, he remarked that Russia had a far vaster project in Tadzhikistan. And the apparent popular enthusiasm that greeted him wherever he turned was largely synthetic...
...change." A fervent Gandhian disciple, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru added his persuasive voice by acknowledging that "a tremendous crisis might arise in the world with an indefinitely growing population." Noting that people in Europe and the Americas were "getting frightened at the prospect of the masses of Asia becoming vaster and vaster and swarming all over the place," Nehru conceded that it was "a legitimate fear...
...promise made over and over again that one thus 'receives the forgiveness of his sins and will go to heaven' discredits Christianity in the eyes of discerning men and women ... Its success in winning thousands by the incantation of an uninterpreted formula must be measured against the vaster number who have been perplexed and even alienated from Christianity by this perversion...