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...certain as can be that the shooting which the Chinese Communists started on August 23 had as its purpose not just the taking of the island of Quemoy. It is part of what is indeed an ambitious plan of armed conquest...
...every fire in Munich, leaving the helpless bluenoses in chilly darkness. Kunrad delivers a 20-minute homily to the chastened Münchners (dramatically cumbersome, but Strauss insisted he had written the opera only for the sake of that speech. Soon all Munich is busily engineering Kunrad's conquest and Diemut's capitulation-which occurs offstage but to almost pornophonically explicit music from the orchestra...
...named Richard Amerycke. In the Bristol view of history, Amerycke, a customs collector, saw to it that Italian Explorer John Cabot, who discovered Cape Breton Island in 1497 and claimed it for the British crown, received a pension from King Henry VII. A grateful Cabot then named the conquest for his benefactor. Said the Lord Mayor, straight-faced: ''Everyone in Bristol has always known...
...routes, to guard them with unbeatable military power. In his day and since, Mahan's doctrine has been criticized as imperialism. But Mahan's quiet point-applicable in the Middle East today -was that overwhelming U.S. power ought to be deployed not for ill ends of world conquest but for wise ends of deterring war and safeguarding peace in which all mankind could prosper. In any event, wrote Mahan in 1890, "Whether they will or no, Americans must now begin to look outward . . ." For a view of a naval commander with a 1958 outward look, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...They are ignoring the fact that if total darkness should fall upon the world it would be they who have made the Communist conquest possible by destroying the will to fight. They would be achieving what Communist imperialism could never have hoped to achieve if the will to stand firm had been kept high...