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Should Indo-China fall, the neighboring countries would be untenable against the Reds. Siam, a happy, well-fed land whose ill-equipped army (30,000 men) and relaxed government could not withstand aggression. Malaya, where Malayan and crack British forces (85,000 men) have been trying for more than two years to finish off an estimated 3,000 Red guerrillas, is a baffling headache to the British. Burma has managed (more or less) to subdue its gun-toting Communists and the tough Karen rebels, but the country is still highly unstable. Fall of these countries in turn would directly menace...
...majority of Roman Catholic teachers, noted the Pope, are far removed from the errors he had outlined. "But," he added, "we know also that such new opinions can entice the incautious; and therefore we prefer to withstand the very beginning, rather than to administer medicine after the disease has grown inveterate...
...Asia, this had not been enough. In Asia, the props of ordered freedom were just not strong enough to withstand the Communist pressure. So China fell while the U.S. argued about the political morals of Chiang Kai-shek and consoled itself with babble about the hopeless "complexity of the situation." After that, "the situation" became infinitely more complex and the reality harder & harder to ignore. The reality was: Communism was winning the victory and might never have to resort...
First Marshal Gardner Cowles held that professors should be free to doubt, analyze, and wonder at every part of society. But Rep. John Davis Lodge of Connecticut said universities should endow students with enough strength to withstand "godless thinking" in the world...
...twelve months of advance, Wall Street's bull market had not once experienced a real shakeout. This had caused some cautious traders to keep their fingers crossed, and wait to see how the market would withstand such a test. For a little while last week they thought the test had come...