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Although the recent comment on the East European political scene that "Moscow's overwhelming.power is a diminish­ing and often unusable asset in keeping the former satellites in line" is essentially correct, Soviet­ East European relations are far too complex to be summarized in one broad value-judgment of this type.

"Is there a key outlook on world affairs?" was the question raised in a recent international relations textbook entitled World Affairs, Problems and Prospects. The authors concluded that In­stead of viewing human life and history from the perspective of a single "outlook," this hazy discipline consisted more of a series of "vantage points," or "approaches."

By way of a brief introduction, I would still like to point out (as you know) that Yugoslavia has played - and will continue to play - the role of a continual ferment in the broader European scene, a distinctly non-stabilizing force on the geographic periphery, but only geographically the periphery, because politically it is close to the center or heartland of world politics at any time.

It is crystal clear today that the Communist parties have failed to carry out agricultural collectivization; that they have destroyed the influence of the churches; that they have not raised the standard of living of the urban population; and most conspicuously of all, that they have been totally incapable of providing even a modicum or a modest semblance of democracy.