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    "ocrText": "- 65 -\ntherefore, and can only lie, in the extension of Communist\nARCHIVES \"NATIONAL RECORDS AND\nDominance. over the earth.\nSERVICE\nAnd the critic fails to grasp that continuing Soviet fear\nwhich flows from or accompanies this obsession; fear of attack\nfrom the capitalist world. For it is this constant fear in the\nSoviet mind which forces it, whenever and wherever it can, to\nsat up its own \"cordon sanitaire\" in reverse, to guard its own\nsystem. The cordon, quite naturally, it tries to make as thick\nand broad as can be.\nThe critic gives no hint of a very definite possibility in\nthe situation which exists. The very fact that the Soviet System\nsuffers, in the comparison with capitalism, from certain inherent\nweaknesses no one, however, can confidently say how serious\nthese weaknesses may be, or may ultimately prove, whether slight\nor\ngrave -- the mere fact of the existence of the weaknesses creates\na chance that some day some Soviet Rulers may feel that they need\na foreign war to maintain their hold over their own people and the\nS tability of their position. Such, it scarcely needs to be said,\nis an old trick amongst threatened oligarchies.\nConfronted with a Soviet attitude, or danger, such as des-\ncribed, to cavil at a course of \"holding the line and hoping\nfor the best\", amounts to counsel the consequence of which might\nbe the ultimate necessity of facing the worst.\nIf the United States do not now possess the infantry reserves\nrequisite to maintain such \"far-flung battle line\", then it becomes\nimperative, with the help of allies, to create, or to re-create\nthem. Such is the grim fact of the situation. Digging ostrich\nheads into the desurt sands of a presently phantom, albeit perhaps"
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