Thoughts and Billiards Balls.

fend in Free China? The issue is nothing less than the defense of freedom against slavery, and those who are, blind to this issue are blind, indeed, to everything. They would rather express the matter in terms of bits of “real estate,” and argue the tenability of certain pieces of property against possible invasion. Those who would impose a “temporary” solution in the Taiwan area by drawing a line down the Taiwan strait will have no better success in concealing the real issue, or preventing its eventual resolution one way or the other, than did our statesmen of the pre-Civil War era. The Chinese Communists, like all Communists, already know this. It is time we faced it ourselves.

This means: where freedom is, we must defend and accentuate it. Surrender inch by inch is no less surrender; and it can rapidly gather momentum in places far removed from the area where the first surrender takes place.

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fend in Free China? The issue is nothing less than the defense of freedom against slavery, and those who are, blind to this issue are blind, indeed, to everything. They would rather express the matter in terms of bits of “real estate,” and argue the tenability of certain pieces of property against possible invasion. Those who would impose a “temporary” solution in the Taiwan area by drawing a line down the Taiwan strait will have no better success in concealing the real issue, or preventing its eventual resolution one way or the other, than did our statesmen of the pre-Civil War era. The Chinese Communists, like all Communists, already know this. It is time we faced it ourselves.

This means: where freedom is, we must defend and accentuate it. Surrender inch by inch is no less surrender; and it can rapidly gather momentum in places far removed from the area where the first surrender takes place.