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the
lt is the U.
S. -
not Soviet
Russia
-
that keeps the
worlá
from
exploáing, that
holás the KEY to the worlá's
"balance
of
power." How
long
can
the U.
S.
continue
without faltering?
by
Raymond F. McNair
Washington, D.C.
A T THJS MOMENT,
nearly
1,200,000
¡-}_
U. S. servicemen stand guard on
the seven continents and pateo!
thc seven seas.
Since 1945, America has replaced
Britaín as
policeman foc
the free West–
ern World.
But ver:y few realize that, in actual
fact, the U. S. has in many ways served
as
wor/d
policeman, even policing, to a
certaín extent, the
Commmúst
nations.
America- a World Supergiant
When this earth's most horrifying
bloodbath ended in 1945 ( over 50 mil–
lion perished in World War
JI ),
Amer·
ica alone of aH major nations was left
rmweakened. Great Britain, France,
ltaly, Germany, Japan and the USSR -
all of the earth's major nations
except
the U. S.- were left in a greatly weak–
ened or totally defeated condition.
The United States, insulated by the
Atlantic and Padfic Oceans, emerged
UPI Pholo