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"The main thesis was a plea for reexamination by our policy makers of the questions of disengagement in Europe and of disarmament. But also there was one lecture, and it is this to which he particularly refers there, which dealt with the underdeveloped world, and which carried forward—I think for the first time from myself publicly—the thesis that we ought to be prepared to let some of these countries go Communist when they try to blackmail us with threats along those lines rather than overloading them with aid."
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Идея о том, что не нужно поддаваться на шантаж стран третьего мира о том, что без американской помощи они скатятся в коммунизм, в ретроспективе могла относиться и к Вьетнаму.