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Marshal Tito has indicated his willingness to accept the proposal; if Italy agrees, the compromise will strengthen Western defenses at one of its weakest points. Almost as important, it will put a needed feather in Mario Scelba's well crushed political...
...counsel Sherman Adams must take the stand next. Thus, long before McCarthy and Cohn testify, the hearings will have lost much of their novelty to many viewers. But to change the order of witnesses, the Committee would again have to compromise with McCarthy, and any such compromise would only strengthen his position. The Senator must face the same cross-examination on the stand that Stevens has undergone. And the public will see it, for even if interest and the television cameras are turned off before McCarthy appears as a witness, both will then revive...
...crucial theater in the struggle between the Communist and non-Communist worlds. Defeat now for the French and Vietnamese would mean not only the lose of Indo-China itself, but eventual Communist domination of Burma, Thailand, and virtually all of Southeast Asia. In addition, it would enormously strengthen the prestige of Communist China. And weakness or defeat in Asia would lead to a serious decline of French influence in Europe, for it would show even more graphically that France is no longer a major world power. Clearly, then, a line must be drawn, across which the Communists cannot step. Indo...
...advise on ... I think I am correct in asserting that the unanimous opposition we expressed to the crash program was based on the conviction, to which technical considerations as well as others contributed, that because of our overall situation at that time such a program might weaken rather than strengthen the position of the U.S. ... I never urged anyone not to work on the hydrogen-bomb project...
...seemed incredible that proud old Papagos should simply be jealous of Markezinis; it seemed more plausible that a Markezinis grasping for power should be (in Papagos' view) bound to make trouble. By shaking up his Cabinet. Papagos managed to strengthen his own control of the government. But significantly enough, he announced that there would be no change in economic policy, and kept at the top Cabinet jobs two stalwart Markezinis men, Economic Minister Thanos Kapsalis and Finance Minister Constantine Papayannis...