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Last week the Peking bullyboys -according to their own account -carried off a small. Commando-type raid of Nationalist-held Quemoy, a 70-sq.-mi. bastion (not part of the Pescadores) that lies off the port city of Amoy, only four or five miles from the mainland. Quemoy bristles with Nationalist troops, is said to be heavily fortified with concrete pillboxes, artillery and interlocking fields of machine-gun fire. Peking claimed that a party of 40 Red raiders attacked a sleeping garrison on Quemoy. killed ten, captured one, withdrew. The occurrence of the raid was confirmed from Taipei...
Fourthly, it is to be hoped that the Republican Party and conservative opinion in America will finally have the intelligence to admit their grievous error of winking while civil liberty, supposedly the traditional bastion of conservatives, was being destroyed. Not since Senator Vandeburg converted to realism has America had a responsible conservative spokesman. Even the late Senator Vandeburg converted to realism has America had a responsible conservative spokesman. Even the late Senator Taft was not averse to praising Senator McCarthy. No historical revisionism or sentiment for the departed can erase this fact. Yet there are many Republicans who currently...
...could not go on. At 1730, De Castries called GHQ for the last time: "After 20 hours of ceaseless combat, just now man-to-man, the enemy has infiltrated right through our central bastion. Munitions are short. Our resistance is about to be submerged. The Vietminh are only a few yards from the radio where I speak. I have given orders for maximum demolitions. The ammo depots are going up already. Au revoir...
These arrangements, catering to the needs of talent, have produced a source of much original work. In the twenty-one years since its inception, the Society has more than vindicated President Lowell's desire to make it a bastion against "dull mediocrity...
Last week it was Inonu (now 69 years old) against Bayar again. Both parties were strongly pro-Western, pro-American and anti-Soviet. Turkey's place as the Middle East's strongest anti-Communist bastion was not at issue. In other fields, the Republicans charged that the Democrats had failed to check inflation, had invited in foreign (U.S.) capital in too generous a fashion. The Democrats replied, in effect, by asking the people whether they were not better off than ever before...