The impending loss of the petroleum of the Middle East and potential interdiction of the sea routes spanning the Indian Ocean, along with the Soviet satellization of the mineral zone of Southern Africa, foreshadow the Finlandization of Western Europe and the alienation of Japan. Even the Caribbean, America's maritime crossroad and peuoleum refining center, is becoming a Marxist-Leninist lake. Either a Pax Sovietica or a worldwide counter-projection of American power is iri the offing. The hour of decision can no longer be postponed. Arms control is unilateral disarmament.
Accommodation is appeasement.
U. S. policy should not be moderated to preserve cohesion in the Atlantic Alliance. Enduring peaceful coexistence with the Soviet Union is unthinkable. Thanks to the inability of the Poles to pay the interest on their debts to Western banks, there was an opportunity to keep the crisis at a boil by declaring Poland in default. No risk of war was posed by such a policy and yet from the haste with which the United States and even more the West Europeans, shrank from it, one might have thought that they expected the Soviets to launch a nuclear suike if the West refused to roll over the Polish loans. To the rollbackers the Soviet Union is an evil empire with a master plan for world domination through terrorism, guerrilla warfare and military superiority.