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...issues of loyalty and security, according to O'Brian, have been seized by unscrupulous politicians and used as political weapons. "But when courageous and outspoken leaders appear, a sense of fair play will assert its power among our people," he continued...
...vital differences between Davenport and others who have had similar insights. Dissatisfaction with military and economic weapons does not lead him to conclude that such weapons should be abandoned: "Without them the entire free world would be exposed." Distrust of the faith in progress does not lead him to assert that it should be discarded, for it has "become vital to the health-indeed to the survival-of modern civilization . . . In terms of human destiny we are committed to the optimistic tradition." It is America's special task-"of truly overwhelming proportions"-to find its own synthesis between faith...
...there are deeper issues in the struggle over Quemoy and Matsau. Red China eventually wants to assert its dominance in Asia, while the U.S. and its allies must at all costs contain Red China within its present boundaries. When military solutions leave the United States in an impossible predicament in Quemoy and Matsu, diplomatic weapons--still backed by rifles and regulars--must take precedence. One of the strongest weapons that the U.S. now has for negotiation is recognition of the Chinese Communist government. The United States should extend such diplomatic recognition as part of an over-all settlement and thus...
...restless, dynamic and ingenious people of Japan are not so movable or removable as the Emperor's sparrows. These sparrows have the vote. With pencil and ballot box, they notified the outside world last week that Japan has emerged from the passivity of defeat to seize and assert its independence...
...United States has exercised a custodianship over them. When Japan relinquished her claims in the place treaty, the islands were not formally returned to China, but remained in the legal care of the United States. The defense treaty with the Chinese Nationalists, now awaiting Senate approval, would firmly assert this relationship...