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About China: In poll on Red China’s admission to the UN, Opinion Research Corporation finds 42 per cent of American people against it, 40 in favor. But six out of seven respondents said they would be reluctant to vote for any candidate who favored admission of Peking if it meant the ousting of Free China. . . . World Anti-Communist League and the Asian Peoples AntiCommunist League meeting in Manila last week issued joint communique condemning proposals to bring Peking into UN. . . . Barry Goldwater says that he himself is against Peking’s entry, says he sees nothing wrong in President Nixon’s proposed China visit, but hopes that the various initiatives won’t persuade the American people that “everything is sweetness and light between our country and Red China.” … It was Senators Frank Church (D., Idaho) and Charles McC. Mathias (R., Md.) who sponsored resolution adopted by Foreign Relations Committee to repeal congressional backing for the use of U.S. forces to protect Taiwan from Red Chinese attack. . . . Pan American, TWA, Northwest Airlines all have operative authority from the CAB to fly to mainland China at such times as air service between the U.S. and China is established. . . . That Anti-Imperialist Hospital in Peking, where James Reston’s appendix was removed a fortnight ago, was built by Rockefeller Foundation money in 1916.

About the war: South Vietnamese pilots are now flying twice as many missions in Vietnam as American pilots; Americans still flying most of the missions in Laos. . . . Combat deaths in first six months of 1971 down 50 per cent over 1968 rate, 20 per cent over 1970 rate. . . . Barry Goldwater’s office inundated with mail from people saying that if they had known then what they know now (Pentagon paperwise), they would have voted for him. . . .

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About China: In poll on Red China’s admission to the UN, Opinion Research Corporation finds 42 per cent of American people against it, 40 in favor. But six out of seven respondents said they would be reluctant to vote for any candidate who favored admission of Peking if it meant the ousting of Free China. . . . World Anti-Communist League and the Asian Peoples AntiCommunist League meeting in Manila last week issued joint communique condemning proposals to bring Peking into UN. . . . Barry Goldwater says that he himself is against Peking’s entry, says he sees nothing wrong in President Nixon’s proposed China visit, but hopes that the various initiatives won’t persuade the American people that “everything is sweetness and light between our country and Red China.” … It was Senators Frank Church (D., Idaho) and Charles McC. Mathias (R., Md.) who sponsored resolution adopted by Foreign Relations Committee to repeal congressional backing for the use of U.S. forces to protect Taiwan from Red Chinese attack. . . . Pan American, TWA, Northwest Airlines all have operative authority from the CAB to fly to mainland China at such times as air service between the U.S. and China is established. . . . That Anti-Imperialist Hospital in Peking, where James Reston’s appendix was removed a fortnight ago, was built by Rockefeller Foundation money in 1916.

About the war: South Vietnamese pilots are now flying twice as many missions in Vietnam as American pilots; Americans still flying most of the missions in Laos. . . . Combat deaths in first six months of 1971 down 50 per cent over 1968 rate, 20 per cent over 1970 rate. . . . Barry Goldwater’s office inundated with mail from people saying that if they had known then what they know now (Pentagon paperwise), they would have voted for him. . . .