“[C]ollaboration between... divergent systems is possible... only as long as both are stable. ...International security is ...based upon the internal political and social security of each of the Great Powers.”

Source: 1930s- 1950s, An Economist Looks At the Peace (1945)

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American business consultant 1909–2005

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