Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...improvements Draper might make would be welcomed by case-hardened daily commuters-300,000 of them scattered from Montauk to Manhattan. But some of the jostled and jaded, who have been through Long Island "reorganizations" before, reserved judgment when they heard that Draper might keep resigned Trustee David Smucker as operating manager. Smucker became operating head of the Long Island in 1949, was on the job at the time of both wrecks...
...occupation without U.S. or Chinese troops; 2) admission of Communist China to U.N.; and 3) abandonment of Formosa to the Chinese Communists. This price was higher than it seemed. Reason: the moral defeat involved would prove to Asiatic and European nations that the U.S. and the U.N. could not make good on their promises of protection against Red aggression. This would deepen the defeatist tendencies of anti-Communists in Asia and Europe. It would "buy time" and save an army, but it would greatly lessen the chances of ever effectively using the time or the army...
...basic anti-Communist policy is not and cannot be a question of achieving agreement between the anti-Communist allies. It is a question of U.S. decision, made with a decent regard for the opinions of the allies, but made essentially by the U.S., which alone has the power to make the alliance a reality...
...look of boredom. Nationalist China's T. F. Tsiang sat with the uninterested look of one who had known all along what was coming, and finally appeared to be dozing. All except Tsiang had held such high hopes of Wu's visit to Lake Success. They would make a deal with Mao's agent. They would reassure him about the West's intentions. They would disabuse him of the Moscow propaganda line...
...Korea. Truman also said: "I have directed the Seventh Fleet to prevent any attack on Formosa." From where Mao sat, this might mean that the whole U.S. policy had suddenly and rashly changed. It might mean that the U.S. would not only try to defend Korea, but would also make the Communists pay for aggression in Korea by protecting their intended victims in Formosa. Mao sat quietly waiting to see if the U.S. would in fact try to regain the initiative in Asia...