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RECOGNIZE FORMOSA AS A SOVEREIGN STATE...
...Geneva failed him at Brussels. From its birth, EDC had stood in danger of being killed by its enemies; but at Brussels it was EDC's friends who preferred to see it killed rather than emasculated. In its death struggle, EDC provided one unforeseen consolation. By forcing five sovereign governments to stand up and defend its supranational clauses, EDC, in death, had given proof of the life that was in the ideal. Mendés the realist, with his ability to weigh facts, apparently had not known how to measure the strength of an ideal...
...Japan, a sovereign nation, is poor, almost broke, worried, and professedly ready to reform. Her usable foreign exchange stands at $640 million, down from $800 million last December. Economists say that the "peril point" is $500 million. Below that figure, the effect will be like that of failure rumors on an uninsured bank...
...Resident General in Rabat, the political capital, they sent this solemn message: "A sacred religious obligation is imposed upon us to counsel the right, to reprove the wrong . . . We judge it opportune to demand in the name of Islam and of the Moroccan people the return of their legal sovereign, Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef, to the throne." Then, in secrecy, the priests reached another decision. Suicide is a deadly sin in Moslem theology, but the conclave decided to sanction the use of cyanide capsules by any Moroccan patriot who might be captured by the French...
What if the French refused either to pass EDC or to grant West Germany its sovereignty? Germany, already divided between East and West, would be split into three: a technically sovereign Soviet satellite in the East, a free area in the U.S.-British zone, and a French-occupied area. If it really wanted to be mischievous, France could create difficulties over the U.S. lines of communication to Germany, which begin in French ports. This might embarrass Germany and the U.S., but it would not help France...