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...neutralist press generally groused about Western colonialism, but hailed Eisenhower's vision of a super Point Four program. In Formosa, part of the press wistfully wished that Eisenhower had mentioned Formosa; but all agreed that the President's address was farsighted. And in Russia, oddly enough, this firmest of U.S. policy pronouncements got one of the gentlest reviews Moscow has accorded a Western cold-war policy statement. Moscow papers printed selected extracts with no immediate recrimination...
From the direction of the Defense Department came repeated talk of stretchout and cutbacks in the defense program. From the State Department area came some loose "thinking out loud" about U.S. concessions to communism in the Far East. Firmest of the week's policy moves were indications of reduced aid to European defense. All together, and coming amid the Soviet soft talk, they seemed to mean that the U.S. was willing to match fair words with generous deeds...
...Rumors to the contrary notwithstanding, NATO Commander General Matthew Ridgway is doing a splendid job, and has firmest Administration support...
...been able to understand, however dimly, the motives that make loyal Communists confess crimes they did not commit. Since the trials of Cardinal Mindszenty and Robert A. Voge-ler, the Western world has also come to realize that relentless and refined pressure on body & mind can make the firmest anti-Communist admit to outlandish offenses. What still remains puzzling is why Communist trials, so carefully stage-managed as spectacles, can be so blatantly inept as to strain the credulity of a high-school boy. Did the Communists really expect the Czechoslovaks to believe the absurd conspiracies confessed so abjectly...
...Communists had no direct land connection with the Communists of Red China or Russia; they had British arms, parachuted to them during World War II, and some of their leaders had been trained in British guerrilla schools. Themselves Chinese, they raised money by extorting it from Chinese businessmen. Their firmest support came from tens of thousands of Communist sympathizers at the jungle's edge, mostly poor Chinese squatters. From them the Communists got food and information...