Negotiation and Statecraft: With Leopold Labedz, July 12, 1973U.S. Government Printing Office, 1973 |
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Page 98 - I just have a hunch that Stalin is not that kind of man. Harry says he's not and that he doesn't want anything but security for his country, and I think that if I give him everything I possibly can and ask nothing from him in return, noblesse oblige, he won't try to annex anything and will work with me for a world of democracy and peace.
Page 98 - To our leaders, policy is as a series of discreet problems ; to the Soviet leaders it is an aspect of a continuing political process. As a result, the contest between us and the Soviet system has had many of the attributes of any contest between a professional and an amateur.
Page 54 - But as soon as we are strong enough to defeat capitalism as a whole we shall immediately take it by the scruff of the neck.
Page 52 - We must clearly understand that this change is a forced one, and that it is precisely the power — the social, economic and, ultimately, military power of the Soviet Union and the socialist countries — that is compelling American ruling circles to engage in an agonizing reappraisal of values.
Page 55 - Further, according to an authoritative 1972 study of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Problems of War and Peace, "As for the policy of peaceful coexistence, it rests on a system of principles that make it possible to avoid a major international conflict in the course of development of revolutionary processes in individual countries.
Page 52 - At the present time no question of any importance in the world can be solved without our participation, without taking into account our economic and military might.
Page 104 - Russia will be, if not our biggest, at least our most eager customer when the war ends." The following year Fortune published a poll showing business leaders to be the "most friendly" toward the USSR of all American groups and also the most hopeful about postwar relations— annual exports to Russia, the magazine predicted, would be between $1 billion and $2 billion. Alas, in 1946 annual...
Page 54 - We are living not merely in a state, but in a system of states, and the existence of the Soviet Republic side by side with imperialist states for a long time is unthinkable. One or the other must triumph in the end. And before that end supervenes, a series of frightful collisions between the Soviet Republic and the bourgeois states will be inevitable.
Page 82 - The two sides reaffirm their intention to deepen cultural ties with one another and to encourage fuller familiarization with each other's cultural values.
Page 60 - I even venture to say that the spirit of Munich prevails in the twentieth century. The timid civilized world has found nothing with which to oppose the onslaught of a sudden revival of barefaced barbarity, other than concessions and smiles. The spirit of Munich is a sickness of the will of successful people, it is the daily condition of those who have given themselves up to the thirst after prosperity at any price, to material well-being as the chief goal of earthly existence. Such people - and there...