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Late on Oct. 15, Hafez Ismail sent a message in which?amazingly?he invited me to visit Egypt for talks "within the framework of two principles???that Egypt cannot make any concessions of land or sovereignty." There could be no doubt that Ismail was speaking in Sadat's name. Sadat could have used the airlift as a pretext to unleash the mobs in the Arab world against us, as Nasser had done with far less provocation in 1967. But Sadat was willing to forgo posturing for attainable progress. He had taken the measure of Soviet support: always enough to keep...
...Hungary and other Communist conquests, the U.S. example of liberty under law, of self-restraint imposed by what Jefferson called "a decent respect to the opinions of mankind," of willingness to use strength to protect independence stood out as powerful assets. Dwight Eisenhower had been shaped by those principles???and in 1959, carrying a message of peace with freedom to three far continents, he represented them to the world as could no one else...
...special report of the Executive Council recommended that the Federation continue its non-Partisan Political Campaign Committee and declared: "We are partisan to principles???not to a political Party." Adherence to the La-Follette Party was definitely voted down...
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