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"One of the most frightening aspects about
what was sown in the I970s is its parallel
to what was sown in the 1930s."
Global Confllct In Gest atlon
As Gen. Keegan told
The Plain Truth:
" A global
conflict is now in gestation .. . 1 think Jimmy
Carter is the last President of the United
States in my judgment who has time remaining
within whicb to alter the perceptions of the
American people and to make a few
prudent rational nonprovocative investments
in defense [Gen. Keegan specifically men–
tioned the B-1 bomber, which was vetoed
by President Carter] that would hold this
evolving situation in abeyance."
Anotber respected authority who sees
how the 1970s have been likened to
the 1930s is Richard Pipes, director of
the Russian Research Center at Har–
vard University: "In sorne respects
the democracies today confront a
situation not unlike that
which they faced in the 1930s: a
totalitarian regime bent on expan–
sion through the use of force. "
Recently England's Prime Minis–
ter Thatcher, delivering the
Winston Churcbill Memorial lecture
in Luxembourg, warned of the
Soviet's overwhelming mi}jtary supe–
riority in Central Europe.
Pravda,
in exquisite irony, responded by saying
Mrs. Thatcher had tried "to put on
Churchill's trousers."
Pravda
then ridiculed the idea that
the Soviet three-to-one superiority in
tanks, or 200,000 superiority in man–
power, or equivalent superiorities in fighters,
bombers and chemical warfare, posed any
real threat to Western Europe.
Soon after, London's
Daily Telegraph
drew the same analogy as
Pravda,
but in a far
different light , in an editorial: "There is
an ominous similarity between the ' 30s and the
present time. Then Winston Churchill gave his
warnings of the growing Nazi threat.
Now ... Mrs. Thatcher is uniquely placed to give a lead.
This looks like
Europe's last chance to safeguard
peace and freedom by firmness. "
But what does this striking parallel mean? At the very
least, it means that the 1980s will see matters come to a head in
Central Europe. It means that Western Europe will find
itself confronted with only three choices: 1) Re!y on the United States,
whose record over the 1970s in coming to the aid of its allies was
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