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...embargoes. Both will need drastic reorganization if peace has indeed broken out. In brief, the economic and political independence which we forfeited as a result of the cold war is likely to be forced upon us very soon. In an era of American-Russian understanding, we shall have to fend for ourselves and make our own decisions, as we have not done for a decade...
While the U.S. waited to see how Diem would fend for himself, Diem got busy. Suddenly a new group was heard from. Three hundred young men dubbed themselves "The General Assembly of Democratic Revolutionary Forces of the Nation," met at Saigon city hall, obviously with Diem's tacit approval. They denounced Bao Dai-"a puppet created by the French colonials . . . leading a dissolute life far from his people." They declared him "deposed," and tore his photograph from the wall and trampled on it. Claiming to speak for 18 nationalist parties, they urged Diem to repress the rebel sects...
...Quemoy and Matsu can be left to Chiang's forces, with the U.S. maintaining a static defense of Formosa and the Pescadores. U.S. land-based and carrier air power would fend off Red bombing attacks on Formosa, might possibly pursue the attackers to their bases. This alternative accepts the loss of Matsu and Quemoy...
...said U.N. Delegate Henry Cabot Lodge as the Secretary General's plane took off. In England, where he picked up Professor Humphrey Waldock, Oxford's ranking expert on international law, Dag Hammarskjold was advised by Sir Anthony Eden to stick closely to the P.W. issue and fend off all Chinese efforts to bargain for U.N. recognition. "To release these men would simply undo the latest of a series of acts of bad faith," wrote the Daily Telegraph summarizing Eden's position. "It would not accomplish the moral rehabilitation of Communist China...
...patent, and put Goodyear in production. By 1906 he was back in Britain, and this time Goodyear won. Says Litchfield: "That's when we really started to go." By 1916 Goodyear's sales overtook its biggest competitors, Goodrich and Diamond, even though they merged to fend off Goodyear. With the tire business booming, Litchfield soon started exploring other fields, made the first U.S. Navy blimps and balloons in World War I, later tried its hand at dirigibles. In World War II the company was one of the most diversified in U.S. industry, turned out everything from Navy fighter...