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    "ocrText": "INTRODUCTION\nARCHIVES to\nProbably the single most important problem confronting the\nworld today is that of international peace. At the present time the\ntwo most powerful nations, from the economic and military standpoint,\nare the United States and Soviet Russia. A major world war in which\nthese two nations are fighting as allies would seem highly improbable\nfor an indefinite period of time. The only possibility of a serious\nbreach of world peace would seem to be based upon a conflict in which\nthe United States and Russia were on opposing sides. This consider-\nation suggests the fact that probably the most important single factor\nin securing world peace consists in the maintenance of peaceful\nrelations between these two nations.\nThe importance of maintaining peaceful relations between\nSoviet Russia and the United States suggests the desirability of the\nmost rigorous analysis of possible causes of conflict between them.\nSuperficially there would seem to be little basis for conflict. Each\nis richly endowed with territory and natural resources and would,\ntherefore, seem to have little reason for adopting a covetous attitude\ntowards its neighbor. Each is war-weary.\nMoreover, the people of the United States and Russia are not\ntraditional enemies. Russia is the only major nation with which the\nUnited States has never been at war, and this in spite of their con-\ntinuous advocacy since 1776 of sharply conflicting theories and forms\nof government.\n-2-"
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