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However illegal the seizures,, were, by last week the government was clearly determined to give them some ex post facto cover of legality. Indonesian politicians of all parties emphasized that there would and could be no turning back, that the Dutch hold on Indonesia's economy would be broken, no matter what the cost. West Irian had only provided the occasion for a break they considered inevitable...
...reality, to bring us to a condition of serenity, stillness, and reconciliation; and then leave us, as Virgil left Dante, to proceed toward a region where that guide can avail us no farther." Insofar as Eliot has always derived his theories from his practice, this is his ex post facto description of the Four Quartets, a poetic bridge between the realms of the material and the spiritual...
Bernstein urged putting an end to Britian's "transitional restrictions" on free conversion of sterling into gold and dollars, since, he said, de facto convertability already exists in New York and Zurich. A reserve currency must be convertabile, he said. International institutions, such as the Monetary Fund, can combat drains on gold and dollar reserves, he added...
...China policy critics who hold that Peking should be recognized because the Communists are in de facto control of the country, Dulles said: "The U.S. knows that the Chinese Communist regime exists. We know that very well, because they fought us in Korea. [But] let me say emphatically that the U.S. need never succumb to the argument of 'inevitability' . . . The reality is that ... a system which seeks to impose conformity is always in danger-and that results from the basic nature of human beings...
...effectively attempt to bar the admission of Manchukuo to the League of Nations? Would Harper's, Atlantic and the New Republic have insisted on doing business with Hitler, Tojo and Mussolini in the name of coexistence with Fascism? Liberals would have us adopt policies toward de facto Communist states which they vehemently opposed when applied to de facto Fascist states...