New Year’s Eve stirs memories of the past. This correspondent, resisting the tall stiff one, reaches for his scrapbook and turns back to notes he made a week or so after the inauguration of Dwight D. Eisenhower:
“It is clear that the new Eisenhower Administration means to anchor its foreign policy to a firm moral foundation: it intends to encourage liberation operations against the Communist empire. When the new President said, two days ago, in his State of the Union message, that there is not ‘any logic or sense in a condition that required the United States Navy to assume defensive responsibilities on behalf of the Chinese Communists,’ he gave the go ahead signal to Chiang Kai-shek for offensive operations against the mainland.
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