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New Possibilities for Coexistence (1959-10-11)

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This episode Mrs. Roosevelt's guests are V. K. Krishna Menon: India's Defense Minister and head of the Indian Delegation to the United Nations General Assembly; Robert R. Bowie: Director of the Center for International Affairs at Harvard University and former Assistant Secretary of State for Policy Planning; Harrison Salisbury: New York Time international expert. The group examines in depth the implications of coexistence between the Communist and the non-Communist worlds. What are the possibilities for lifting the Iron Curtain, increased trade? How irreconcilable are long term Soviet objectives with free world objectives? (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)

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WGBH Educational Foundation

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Eleanor Roosevelt, Cold War coexistence, V. K. Krishna Menon, India, nonalignment, Iron Curtain, Soviet Union, disarmament, WGBH, National Educational Television, Harrison Salisbury, Robert Bowie, Harvard, 1959 foreign policy, Prospects of Mankind

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