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...corner of the mouth and by speaking softly out of the other. Chiang's offer of 33,000 troops for Korea was turned down on the ground that it might provoke the Chinese Communists to get into the fight. They got in anyway. By peremptorily forbidding Chiang to harass the Chinese mainland, the U.S. also gave the Chinese Communists flank protection from Formosa, in the same hope that they would stay out of Korea. They got in anyway...
...guerrillas, Mao years ago reminted some good advice originally coined by Sun Tzu, China's sth Century B.C. Clausewitz: "When the enemy advances, we retreat. When he escapes, we harass. When he retreats, we pursue. When he is tired, we attack." For comrades everywhere he wrote a military treatise, Strategic Problems (published in Yenan in 1941), that probably ranks as a classic on irregular warfare. Its precepts boldly give directions for destroying "an enemy 20 times our number...
...galleries were jammed with FEPC supporters (though very few Negroes) and the floor was crowded with Congressmen when the House convened at noon. Southern Democrats and twoscore Republican allies, who had kept the bill in the wings for weeks by stubborn delaying actions, gathered to the last man to harass, confuse and delay again. It was after 5 o'clock in the evening when the bill was brought before the House- a reading of Washington's Farewell Address, bickering oratory over parliamentary points and seven time-consuming roll calls had eaten up the afternoon. The Southerners received subtle...
...have little or no knowledge of the socalled "seniority clause" that infests almost every union contract . . . The "seniority clause" requires that the last to be hired must be the first fired; and the last hired includes some mighty fine young men, while the old "sluggards" remain to foment trouble, harass management and keep up costs...
Twins on the Right. Many of Erato's Greek countrymen would answer that question with a violent yes; Mamma Erato's son is Nicholas ("Nico") Zach-ariades, leader of the Communist guerrillas who harass Greece from the north. But the butcher is gentler. "There are no real Communists in Greece," he says, "only misery...