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...arms race in the Mideast and stirring up anti-Western sentiment in North Africa and Cyprus, while Western nations like Great Britain, smitten by Geneva optimism, have reduced the size of their own armed forces. These developments have engendered for the United States new anxiety reminiscent of the Formosa Strait crisis last spring...
...trick of standing behind the lines and quarterbacking Communist strategy for all Southeast Asia. Old revolutionaries may die, but with revolution to be done they do not just fade away. In Red eyes, there is revolution to be done in Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaya, and across the Malacca Strait in Indonesia...
...Point Two of the agenda for Geneva, namely: "settlement of certain other practical matters." He will canvass the possibility of Red China's agreement to U.S. principle of "no recourse to force." The U.S. also wants to explore the chances for a cease-fire in the Formosa Strait. But Ambassador Wang's Red China defines the "other matters" quite differently: 1) peaceful conquest of Formosa, 2) lifting of the U.S. and UN embargoes on trade with China in strategic materials, 3) membership in the U.N., 4) "strict fulfillment of the 1954 Geneva treaty on Indo-China," meaning...
...three of the broad objectives. The U.S. wants Red China to 1) agree to adopt the U.S. principle of "no recourse to force," 2) order its marauding pilots to stop shooting down peaceful Western planes, and 3) join the U.S. in examining the possibility of ceasefire in the Formosa Strait. Should the parley at the base camp progress smoothly, Dulles might later be prepared to meet Chou Enlai...
...There, at the beginning of a sun-soaked Italian summer, she meets the aging principessa and the principessa's current lover, Arcangelo, though Celia is too innocent to recognize him as such. She is quicker to sense the unsettling effects of the Italians upon her tidy and hitherto strait-laced life. She tries to tell the children's nanny about it: "They flourish somehow, they don't mind so much about . . . about what we mind, they're not so niggly -. . That's how I feel: niggly." Soon, Celia is feeling so far from niggly that...