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With measured contempt he read its title aloud: Dan Smoot Speaks. Then he asked, "But who wants to Hsten?" -and dropped the publication into the wastebasket...
...nation gain the competitive edge on foreign competition? Only a small number of U.S. businessmen really favor a return to Hawley-Smoot protectionism. (But many are bitterly resentful of continued foreign economic aid, which they regard as expenditure of hard-earned U.S. tax dollars to build up tough foreign competition for taxpaying U.S. businesses.) What businessmen can do, say U.S. Assistant Secretary of Commerce Henry Kearns and fellow officials, is cut the lead time on research and development, pull off the shelf better products originally planned for future exploitation, sharpen up their selling tactics. What U.S. labor must do, says...
...attitude hardened. The last advocate of restraint among his advisers had fallen silent. Chiang reportedly urged his case in a series of lunches and meetings in Taipei with U.S. Ambassador Everett Drumwright, Admiral Harry Felt, commander in chief of U.S. Forces in the Pacific, and Vice Admiral Roland Smoot, U.S. commander in the Formosa area...
...Communists should decide to convert their harassment of Quemoy into a no-holds-barred war, the U.S. was ready. Last week the disparate units and individuals on Formosa were reorganized into a unified combat command under Vice Admiral Roland Smoot. Between them, the new Formosa Defense Command and the Seventh Fleet's Task Force 77 could hammer China with a destructive power unequalled in the previous history of warfare. But, barring an almost incredible improvement in supply techniques, the Chinese Communists held Quemoy in a vise so tight that they need never challenge the mighty force that...
...convoys to consider new tactics. The Communist barrage has become steady, making beach and airfield almost unusable. In desperation, the Nationalists airdrop small quantities of medical supplies to Que-moy's garrison. Admiral Beakley comes ashore to consider with Taiwan Defense Command's Vice Admiral Smoot "what to do now." Beakley admits: "We are back right where we started before we began convoying. They called our hand when they shelled the beach and got that LSM. The Chicoms' guns can and will blast anything on the beach until they are taken out. We could take them...