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...revolution in aggression." The U.S. commitment in Viet Nam, he said, is based on the fact that "around the world are countries whose independence rests in large measure on confidence in America's word and in America's protection. To yield to force in Viet Nam would weaken that confidence. We would have to fight in one land, and then we'd have to fight in another-or abandon much of Asia to the domination of Communists. And we do not intend to abandon Asia to conquest...
...Warren Center, far from improving undergraduate education, may indeed only weaken the already short-handed staff in American history. The provisions for the use of the bequests do not improve the dismal tenure prospects confronting the junior faculty; the History Department can only expect to go losing its best men before their terms expire. And the possibility of full professors' spending less of their time teaching is even more alarming to those of us who care how American history is taught...
...Board's policy, Shapiro commented, could severly harm the more serious British payments deficit and weaken further the unstable pound by attracting a new flow of funds to America from the London market for short-term security investment...
...would certainly cause civilian casualties-and a U.S. propaganda setback. Blasting the docks or mining the harbor at Haiphong would provoke furious protests from America's allies, who have hauled some 100 shiploads of cargo there so far this year. Air raids might also stiffen rather than weaken morale on the ground, as happened in both Britain and Germany during World War II. Nor would the destruction of its industrial plant necessarily hobble Hanoi's war in the South, since Peking, Moscow and other Communist capitals have been the Viet Cong's chief armorers all along...
...Strauss & Co., Schroder is also suspect for his views on Oder-Neisse, although his public words on the subject have been conventional enough. Recently, he expressed the government's view on the church memorandum: "We must not abandon or weaken our position in regard to the German eastern territories," he said, "unless there is a relation to the reunification problem." His colleague in the C.D.U., Hamburg Party Chairman Erik Blumenfeld, went a long step farther. "A solution of the border question," he said, "can only be reached by balancing the interests of the two parties involved. The overwhelming interest...