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...Chiang's preoccupation with Quemoy's fate "almost pathological." Into the State Department poured about 5,000 letters, 80% of them critical of Ike's policy. The President went on nationwide radio-TV, declared that the Quemoy attack was "part of an ambitious plan of armed conquest ... I assure you that no American boy will be asked by me to fight just for Quemoy. But . . . the American people as a whole do stand ready to defend the principle that armed force shall not be used for aggressive purposes...
From Bluff to Doom. Author Shirer effectively underlines the incredible myopia of France and England in letting Hitler conthem into accepting one conquest after another until even the Chamberlains in both countries could swallow no more. Shirer shows how the German generals feared that every aggressive move of the Fiihrer's would lead them into a war for which they were not ready-only to realize eventually that the "warlord's" successful bluff made their caution seem ridiculous. The big-lie technique, the phony "threats" to Germany from future victims (Austria, Czechoslovakia. Poland) are documented to the hilt...
...conquering the Detroit boat, the varsity listed its thirty-first consecutive win and conquest of the 89 other crews entered in Thames Cup competition...
...existence of these devices for killing populations leaves us exposed to the danger that they will be used in time of crisis regardless of previous resolve; therefore we must prevent their continued manufacture and posession. We know full well that the possible consequences of such radical action include invasion, conquest and tyranny; yet they are within the limits of human experience. Societies throughout history have been able to recover from situations comparable to the most extreme of these possibilities. We accept responsibility for developing effective ways of keeping alive our basic values and stand ready to dedicate our lives toward...
...past, the peace movement has climbed out on some rotten limbs. Last spring, for example, the Committees of Correspondence, including professors David Riesman and H. Stuart Hughes, proposed "destruction of thermonuclear weapons" as an "independent American initiative." Admitting that unilateral disarmament would invite Soviet invasion and conquest, the Committee stated reassuringly that such tyranny would fall "within the limits of human experience." And bravely, the group accepted "responsibility for developing effective ways of keeping alive our basic values"--some sort of "non-military methods of resistance...