 163  31. These are the bare facts. It would be wrong, at the beginning of a new series of talks, to exaggerate their significance. But for those who lived through the thick of the last negotiations for British entry into the European Economic Community there is an overwhelming feeling of history repeating itself. 32. Despite a "difficult year" last year, the bank increased its net profits by 24 per cent and shareholders would have been given a bigger increase than that recently announced but for the Government's restraint rules. 33. But for their refusal to return all prisoners, the armistice would have been already signed. 34. What response the Japanese people will make to that defeat can now be but dimly foreseen. 35. In our epoch the peoples and states have but one' choice: peaceful coexistence or nuclear war of extermination. 36. His reasons are anything but simple. 37. The report estimates that by 1981 the population will rise by 875,000 to an estimated 5,800,000 and by the year 2000 a further one or two million may well be added. 38. The British Premier and the French President might: well talk also about the Middle East — a region which, least" of all, has claims to being called static. 39. Continued procrastination would be taken here as an attempt to torpedo the plan and could very well lead to a Washington — Bonn initiative in another direction. 40. The report adds that vigorous attempts are being made to divert public attention from the real issue, which is that it may well be possible to achieve a nuclear test ban treaty that could be a first step leading in time to the end of the arms race. 41. No doubt new men will be needed as well as a new attitude and new ideas. 163 |
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