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““A fitting coda is provided by something that Henry Kissinger 
wrote in 1957: ‘We retreat before Soviet might and yet we are 
afraid to make use of Soviet difficulties. This difference in 
willingness to take a risk has been the Soviet Union’s main ad- 
vantage in the postwar period, almost outweighing all its short- 
comings.”’”! 
21 “Foreign Trade as a Factor in Soviet Policy,’’ by Allan Kroncher, Radio Liberty Dispatch, R.L. 
148/74, May 22, 1974. [His quotation from Dr. Kissinger’s works is taken from a Russian edition of 
“Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy.”’] 
