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...Farnsworth displayed the sketches, drawn by the University's regular architects, Shepley, Bulfinch, Richardson and Abbott, in his office yesterday. He explained that once funds were available, final plans would take another six months to prepare and construction an additional 15 to 18 months...
...would seem James Shepley's article has given Russia more information on the comparative strengths of the world's two great air forces than their paid spies have been able to dig up for the last six months. Is it not possible that this was the purpose of the Russian invitation given so congenially to Twining? Twining, plus the American press, has given the Russians all the answers again. They know that garrulous verbosity is one of America's serious weaknesses...
...believing the British had agreed to support him, but two weeks later "the British had had a change of heart." Nonetheless, Dulles now contends, his readiness to intervene in Indo-China gave the British and French a basis of strength from which they negotiated the truce agreement at Geneva. Shepley wrote: "Dulles had seen to it that the Chinese and the Soviets knew that the U.S. was prepared to act decisively to prevent the fall of all of Southeast Asia...
...Dulles felt that the Communists were deterred from attacking the offshore islands of Quemoy and Matsu by the resolution, framed by himself and passed by the Congress, giving the President a free hand to use U.S. forces against the Communists if they attacked Formosa and related territories. Shepley added: "Dulles has never doubted, incidentally, that Eisenhower would have regarded an attack on Quemoy and the Matsus as an attack on Formosa...
...Verge of War." Dulles explained to Shepley that his concept of retaliation did not mean the starting of World War III, but the fitting of the punishment to the crime. Limited targets in the Korea and Indo-China crises, for example, were selected in the event that retaliation became necessary. "They were specific targets reasonably related to the area. They did not involve massive destruction of great population centers like Shanghai, Peking or Canton. Retaliation must be on a selective basis. The important thing is that the aggressor know in advance that he is going to lose more than...