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...five years Peking has been staking its prestige on its solemn vow to "liberate Formosa." It is Peking's declared No. 1 foreign-policy objective. It serves the additional purposes of justifying its large armies, of keeping tensions stirred up, of taking its people's minds off crop failures and floods. Chiang Kai-shek serves the historical function of being tyranny's external enemy, who can be blamed for exertions demanded and identified as the sponsor of anyone who dares challenge the regime. To renounce all this, to concede the U.N.'s right to talk...
Blunt as Chou was, his renewed vow to "liberate" Formosa omitted one essential: when. The Communists were careful to leave themselves time. Peking is patient, Chou En-lai explained when Burma's Premier U Nu visited Peking last December, and expects to win Formosa not by force of arms but by subversion and defection...
...vow of eternal affection may be becoming only a memory, but that does not mean people are buying fewer cards. Insulting Valentines are selling in unprecedented numbers...
...index was the stock market, reflecting the feeling of investors. The elections set off a surge of buying; the Dow Jones industrial average climbed to its highest level since 1929. Evidently, investors accepted the Republican vow to avoid creeping socialism and the Democratic pledge to prevent creeping unemployment. The middle of the road might be crowded, but it was comfortable...
...Wherfor have Sir Gawaine and his brethren sworne a greate vow to journee to the Holly Woode, and onloose the fayr Colhumbia, allso to slay the dreadfull dragoun Metr Ogol Dwynma Yer, and anie other of his breede yt they shal finde. Avaunt! eftsoons bee al mal engine full awroke...