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...gave a diplomatic dinner for Russian U.N. Delegate Andrei Gromyko to urge Moscow pressure on Peking for peaceful settlement. Dulles met privately with Lloyd and French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville, who began making the Western case in U.N. for an effective cease-fire in the Formosa Strait...
...plane taxied in, the Red batteries came alive, and 20 rounds smacked in. Geysers spouted from the sea, and two holes were blasted in the airstrip. On signal, we scrambled out of our ditch and aboard the plane. Minutes later we were over the white-capped Formosa Strait...
TAIPEI, Formosa, Oct. 1--President Chiang Kai-shek balked at the U.S. formula for peace in Formosa Strait and his Nationalist government then flatly rejected it today...
WASHINGTON--Secretary of State Dulles Tuesday heralded a possible major shift in America's China policy. He offered to try trimming Nationalist military strength in the Formosa Strait offshore islands if the Communists quit shooting...
Similarly, three hundred years ago, Richelieu had warned his King that only a monarchical strait-jacket could keep together a fickle and undisciplined nation. In de Gaulle's constitution, the President of the Republic, elected by a College of about 75,000 citizens (including Parliament and delegates of France's territorial subdivisions), will ensure "the regular operation of France's institutions" and guarantee "the continuity of the State...