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    "ocrText": "-5-\nin an article entitled \"Multilateral Diplomacy\" by William Sanders,\nSpecial Assistant to the Assistant Secretary for United Nations Affairs.\nIt points out that there are fundamental differences between the two\nphilosophies as to the conditions which must prevail in the world\nbefore the basic causes of international friction and conflict can be\nremoved and as to the means by which these conditions can be created.\nThe article states:\n\"Soviet dialectic concludes that the U.S.S.R. can never be\nsecure so long as powerful capitalist nations exist. Peace\nwill come to the world when control by the proletariat has been\nestablished in all or at least the major states. Before this\nmillenium is reached, however, control of the proletariat by a\nsmall, tightly organized, and ruthless minority is considered\nessential in order to assist in the consummation of the\ninevitable outcome of social forces. The question of when and\nhow transfer of control from this minority to the proletariat\nis to be accomplished has been neglected. In the meanwhile,\na monolithic obedience is exacted. The same approach is applied\nin international relations. Peace in the world cannot be\nestablished before all differences disuppear, submerged in a\nvast subservience to the Soviet image all along the line. In\nthis connection, the Soviets appear to read the present polar-\nization of power between the two centers of Western democracy\nand Communist Russia as a sharpening of the issues between two\nirreconcilable civilizations, in which the survival of one\nthe =\nrequires the death of the other. !?\nThe article contrasts the Soviet conception with the principle of\npeaceful change in the Constitution of the United States, and continues:\n\"\nW hile we recognize the interdependence of the world\nand consider that this interdependence requires a collective\napproach to world peace, we do not believe that our security\nis dependent upon the creation of a world on a United States\nmodel through liquidation of all opposition. This philosophy\nis incorporated in the Charter of the United Nations. In this\ncontext, the Soviet concept is like a fish out of water. \" 5\nAmbassador Harriman Discusses Productivity of Soviet Bloc. -\nUS Ambassador W. Averell Harriman contrasted productivity of the Soviet\nbloc and the North Atlantic Pact nations in statements before the\nHouse Foreign Affairs Committee on August 2 and the Foreign Relations\nand Armed Services Committees of the Senate on August 11. He said:\n\"We have four times the coal and steel production of the\nSoviet Union and its satellites, and a labor force substantially\ngreater. The productivity of our mutual labor force is far\ngreater than that of the backward countries of the East. The\nWestern European participants alone have greater productive\ncapacity than the countries behind the iron curtain. \"\n6\nBulletin, August 8, p. 163.\n6\nPress releases 591, August 2, and 619,\nAugust 11."
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