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In the summer of 1981 eightyodd representatives of 26 countries convened at Leeds Castle in Kent, England, for the First Annual World Balance of Power Conference. Geoffrey Stewart-Smith, Director of the Foreign Affairs Research Institute, addressed the meeting:

The unique character of this conference is its scale. It is global in its thinking or it is nothing. As you all know we are faced with a global Soviet challenge, so if our societies are to survive in freedom there must be a global response. In 1919, the Soviets through the Comintern effectively declared war on every non-Communist country in the world. So far the world’s response has been either purely national or bilateral defense agreements or regional collective security pacts such as NATO, ANZUS, etc., but nothing global.

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In the summer of 1981 eightyodd representatives of 26 countries convened at Leeds Castle in Kent, England, for the First Annual World Balance of Power Conference. Geoffrey Stewart-Smith, Director of the Foreign Affairs Research Institute, addressed the meeting:

The unique character of this conference is its scale. It is global in its thinking or it is nothing. As you all know we are faced with a global Soviet challenge, so if our societies are to survive in freedom there must be a global response. In 1919, the Soviets through the Comintern effectively declared war on every non-Communist country in the world. So far the world’s response has been either purely national or bilateral defense agreements or regional collective security pacts such as NATO, ANZUS, etc., but nothing global.