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...razor-sharp statement that the U.S. ought to turn over the Quemoy-Matsu crisis to the U.N., ought to have a plebiscite in Formosa (no mention of the same thing for Red China), also slashed at "world-ambulating" Secretary of State Dulles for dragging the U.S. to "the brink of having to fight a nuclear war." The Advisory Council's added point (later opposed by Harry Truman): although there may be dangerous times when an opposition ought to keep quiet, the Quemoy-Matsu crisis "is not such a case...
DULLES SCENTS BRINK VICTORY, proclaimed the Christian Science Monitor last week as the Secretary of State flew'back from a few days at his Duck Island retreat to a capital hoping against hope that Red China would make its seven-day ceasefire on Quemoy permanent. Dulles conferred with Under Secretary of State Christian Herter and Assistant Secretary for Far Eastern Affairs Walter Robertson, hit a quick consensus that the Communists had stopped shooting because their artillery blockade of Quemoy had failed, and they were unwilling or unable to step up the pressures in the teeth of U.S. and Chinese...
Asked whether it was dangerous to assume that the Communists want to end the cold war, Jones replied, "All life involves risk, but the Russians and the Chinese do not want to hover on a brink any more than...
Desperate Call. Before the Si-nation General Assembly the President struck hard at what he called "ballistic blackmail": the Soviet Union's rocket-rattling and "brink-of-catastrophe" alarms after the U.S. landing in Lebanon. "In most communities," said President Eisenhower, "it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims? Pressures such as these will never be successfully practiced against America, but they do create dangers which could affect each and every...
...hear the growls of the economic bears, the U.S., having just turned the recession around, now stands tottering on the brink of something disastrous called "inflation." But does it? The U.S. could indeed have serious inflation if fiscal irresponsibility at Government levels piled up national debts heavier than the economy can absorb. It might also have inflation if the wage spiral got out of hand, or if capacity to produce fell so far short of demand that prices suddenly shot up by 10% or 20%. It will not have "inflation" by any sensible definition of the word so long...