RUSSIA: How To Wait

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Absolute dictatorship the world has never seen, will never see. Every tyrant is a slave to the inescapable calculus of power: how can I keep them bent to my will? Last week when the Kremlin extended its new conciliatory foreign policy line (see INTERNATIONAL), it was recognizing (as it often had before) that the blindfolded, voiceless 193,000,000 inhabitants of the U.S.S.R. were still a major factor in determining Russia's course.

In Lucius Boomer's spacious Waldorf-Astoria apartment Molotov compromised on Trieste and conceded the principle of free trade on the Danube....

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