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    "ocrText": "-10-\nIn the and I would like to bring this matter back into a balanced\nperspective by reminding you that the Soviet system itself is straining until\nit is threatening to burst at the seams: That Khrushchev was forced to give\nback to more decentralised peasant operation the tractor stations is not\naccidental. That Russian agriculture by visiting delegations and study learned\nleasons from American agriculture which the rulers of Russia are now putting\ninto force by relaxing the rigidity of their previous controls, is not\naccidental. When Thrushcher has to supply greater consumer wants in the Soviet\nsystem, the exaggerated rate of economic growth that came from plowing all the\nproductivity of Russia back into capital goods cannot be maintained. The scope\nand scale of foreign aid becomes competitive with maintaining even a low\nstandard of living in the satellites and in the Soviet system itself. The\ndemand for a rise in that standard is the most powerful political force that\nde-Stalinization has unloosed. It is not likely to be caged without more brutal\nreStalinization than Khrushchev has yet dared to attempt.\nThat makes the strategy of terror which Khrushchev is trying to bring\nto bear on the free world, particularly on the American people, crucial to his\nsuccess or failure. If he can frighten us into turning over without a struggle\nor without forcing him to take the risks which he dare not himself take, the\nwhole of the Far East, the Middle East, and then Africa by his threats of\ndestruction, he gives a shaky system the appearance of omard-going revolutionary\nsuccess. When he suffers setbacks and checks against the rising demands within\nhis own system and has to underwrite the adventurism of Mao Tse-Tung to satisfy\nthe strong Stalinist wing in his own Commist controlled group, he is undergoing\nfar greater stains than our political system need face.\nThis is a struggle of faiths and of national character and leadership.\nIf we are true to our own heritage (and we shall be): if we do not shrink from\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Library and Museum."
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