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...word bluff, spelled bluf, has now entered the Creole language. Cedras thinks he can outbluff Clinton. He will play for time, negotiate with anyone who comes along, and point to the delay to convince his followers that the U.S. is not really coming. So far, he is succeeding. Invasion fears are fading, and many of Haiti's wealthy backers of the 1991 military coup against Aristide have begun their August vacations in the cool mountain valleys. In Washington Clinton's advisers seemed no closer to a decision, and most will be heading off for their vacations as well...
...Thus any war America fights against the dominions of the Russians or Chinese is anti-totalitarian. Furthermore, it is urged, there is no power imperative for withdrawing in Vietnam, since the cost of the predominantly aerial offensive is marginal, and since U.S. nuclear superiority will enable the U.S. to outbluff the Chinese and the Russians on ground escalation. Therefore the day-to-day facts I.F. Stone documents are only the superficial phenomena of the power realities. Radicals, liberals say, have always shivered in horror and mistaken atrocities for the real issues. As de Gaulle once remarked, "blood dries quickly...
Daladier's Choice. Vigorous Daladier may well have judged that, if the game is to be nine-tenths bluff (as it often has been in France), he can first outbluff and finally outbargain Jouhaux. So-called "alarming reports" of French police last week "smashing" many "spontaneous" and "premature" so-called "strikes" in Lille (50,000 strikers), Billancourt (30,000), Valenciennes (8,000), etc., had their element of play-acting-but the play was new. It was not according to the "New Deal" script of Léon Blum, under whom as Premier one million workers were on strikes...
Explanation: Neither under Lenin in 1920 nor under Stalin in 1935 has the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ever been strong enough, despite its present "World's Largest Army" (see p. 15), to outbluff, much less outfight, a resolute adversary like Japan. With boundless insolence the yellow men, as they bought Stalin's railway for a song last week, actually egged their puppet Emperor of Manchukuo to extend official recognition to the Grand Duke Cyril, pretender to the Throne of Russia. One more insult to Stalin & Co. came when Emperor Kang Te announced that while all Red Russian...
...President's "deep satisfaction" at the "many thousands of letters and telegrams" which were inundating Washington-"so great that even the President was surprised." Washington newshawks, unable to find any confirmation of this postal flood, told a different story, openly suspected the White House staff of trying to outbluff the Senate...
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