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I don't see how it's possible for anybody to say what is going to be defensible at an unspecified date in the future, under unspecified circumstances, when nobody knows what the state of the military art is going to be.

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I think the position that is set forth in the Senate resolution is the best and the wisest thing we can do, which is that the President, the Commander-in-Chief decides at the time whether an attack on Kamoa and Matsu is in fact a threat to Formosa and the Pescadores.

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He decides that then in the light of the information available to him then.

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Prestige is the question of whether a country is respected, whether people think that your word is good, whether people think that your motives are noble, and on that count our prestige is very high.