S.A. authority
in the power vacuum left by the expulsion of Britain,
France, Holland and Japan from the territories composing
their former empires. Local wars begun in Korea (1950)
and extending across Southeast Asia have strengthened the
determination of the local peoples to defend themselves at
all costs against imperialist invaders from Europe and North
America.
7. The United States has been rich enough since 1945 to build
and maintain a navy that can patrol the Atlantic and Pacific
Oceans and the Mediterranean Sea and maintain large military
forces in various European and Asian waters. This
policy has been justified by the Truman-Johnson-Nixon
Doctrine of determined opposition to the extension of
socialism-communism and the consequent perpetuation of
the cold war.
8. In theory the socialist world is unitary. In practice it is so
fragmented by national boundary lines and ideological differences
that its members have not been able (during recent
years) to get together and discuss their major common
problems.
United States wealth and military equipment have been sufficiently
over-whelming to support the program of an American Century during which
one nation might establish a universal state exercising planet-wide
authority along the lines of the Universal State established by the
Romans at the zenith of their power. In practice the program has not
worked out.
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