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...alternating belligerence with "peaceful coexistence," open repression (Hungary) with subtle infiltration (the Mideast). "What is striking [is] that essentially the same pattern of Soviet behavior should time and again raise discussion about its 'sincerity' or its 'novelty,' " says Kissinger. "Nothing could be more irrelevant." Steadfast Communist doctrine uses war and peace as varying opportunistic means to the same distant goal: domination of the entire world...
...Mahomed learned early to reconcile the vast differences in two disparate worlds and from the beginning cast his lot and his influence in the direction of British authority. When the Germans tried to win over Islam in World War I, the Aga Khan did much to keep his followers steadfast beside the British. A grateful Britain in return heaped him with imperial honors that ran all the way from a knighthood to membership in the exclusive Jockey Club, to which no Asian had ever been admitted. They were also behind his being named President of the League of Nations...
...Communism is stubborn for the wrong, let us be steadfast for the right...
...dividing the embassy into two building's connected by a glassed-in passageway. Now, with The Hague's burgomaster, planning commission and local architects behind him, Breuer is convinced that by the time the embassy is completed in the fall of 1958, people, including even the steadfast Hagenaars, will be prepared to accept and admire...
...Chinese attack, and internally, against Peking's stepped-up campaign of subversion in Southeast Asia. And for the information of the delegates, Dulles reiterated the U.S. position on the two Chinas, i.e., nonrecognition of the Chinese Communist regime, opposition to its seating in the U.N., and steadfast support for the government of the Republic of China on Formosa...