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Their answer was : it can be done, and we will do it. | do | {
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And then I put the question as pointedly as I could directly to Chiang Kai-shek : `` In America '', I said, `` practically no one believes that you subjectively intend to re-enter the Mainland. | put | {
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And then I put the question as pointedly as I could directly to Chiang Kai-shek : `` In America '', I said, `` practically no one believes that you subjectively intend to re-enter the Mainland. | said | {
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And then I put the question as pointedly as I could directly to Chiang Kai-shek : `` In America '', I said, `` practically no one believes that you subjectively intend to re-enter the Mainland. | believes | {
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And then I put the question as pointedly as I could directly to Chiang Kai-shek : `` In America '', I said, `` practically no one believes that you subjectively intend to re-enter the Mainland. | intend | {
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And then I put the question as pointedly as I could directly to Chiang Kai-shek : `` In America '', I said, `` practically no one believes that you subjectively intend to re-enter the Mainland. | re-enter | {
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What evidence is there of an objective kind that in fact your government proposes to do just that, and that it can be done ''? | proposes | {
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What evidence is there of an objective kind that in fact your government proposes to do just that, and that it can be done ''? | do | {
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What evidence is there of an objective kind that in fact your government proposes to do just that, and that it can be done ''? | done | {
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He smiled. | smiled | {
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( He always smiles - at least at visitors, I gather. | smiles | {
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( He always smiles - at least at visitors, I gather. | gather | {
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He smiled also at a British bloke seated next to me, who asked the most asinine questions. | smiled | {
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He smiled also at a British bloke seated next to me, who asked the most asinine questions. | seated | {
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He smiled also at a British bloke seated next to me, who asked the most asinine questions. | asked | {
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I recalled sympathetically the Duke 's complaint in Browning 's `` My Last Duchess ''. | recalled | {
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He smiled, and said a word or two to the interpreter, who turned to me, `` The President wonders where you are going after you leave Taipei ''? | smiled | {
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He smiled, and said a word or two to the interpreter, who turned to me, `` The President wonders where you are going after you leave Taipei ''? | said | {
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He smiled, and said a word or two to the interpreter, who turned to me, `` The President wonders where you are going after you leave Taipei ''? | turned to | {
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He smiled, and said a word or two to the interpreter, who turned to me, `` The President wonders where you are going after you leave Taipei ''? | wonders | {
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He smiled, and said a word or two to the interpreter, who turned to me, `` The President wonders where you are going after you leave Taipei ''? | going | {
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He smiled, and said a word or two to the interpreter, who turned to me, `` The President wonders where you are going after you leave Taipei ''? | leave | {
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That, I smarted, is a royal rebuff if ever there was one. | smarted | {
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That, I smarted, is a royal rebuff if ever there was one. | is | {
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I answered the routine question about my itinerary, rather coolly. | answered | {
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Chiang spoke again, this time at greater length. | spoke | {
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`` The President says '', the translator came in, `` that the reason he asked you where you were going is because he hoped you would be visiting other areas in Southeast Asia, and that everywhere you went, you would seek the answer to your question. | says | {
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`` The President says '', the translator came in, `` that the reason he asked you where you were going is because he hoped you would be visiting other areas in Southeast Asia, and that everywhere you went, you would seek the answer to your question. | came in | {
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`` The President says '', the translator came in, `` that the reason he asked you where you were going is because he hoped you would be visiting other areas in Southeast Asia, and that everywhere you went, you would seek the answer to your question. | asked | {
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`` The President says '', the translator came in, `` that the reason he asked you where you were going is because he hoped you would be visiting other areas in Southeast Asia, and that everywhere you went, you would seek the answer to your question. | going | {
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`` The President says '', the translator came in, `` that the reason he asked you where you were going is because he hoped you would be visiting other areas in Southeast Asia, and that everywhere you went, you would seek the answer to your question. | is | {
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`` The President says '', the translator came in, `` that the reason he asked you where you were going is because he hoped you would be visiting other areas in Southeast Asia, and that everywhere you went, you would seek the answer to your question. | hoped | {
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`` The President says '', the translator came in, `` that the reason he asked you where you were going is because he hoped you would be visiting other areas in Southeast Asia, and that everywhere you went, you would seek the answer to your question. | visiting | {
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`` The President says '', the translator came in, `` that the reason he asked you where you were going is because he hoped you would be visiting other areas in Southeast Asia, and that everywhere you went, you would seek the answer to your question. | went | {
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`` The President says '', the translator came in, `` that the reason he asked you where you were going is because he hoped you would be visiting other areas in Southeast Asia, and that everywhere you went, you would seek the answer to your question. | seek | {
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He says that if he were to express to you, once again, his own profound determination to go to the Mainland, and his faith that that return is feasible, he would merely sound redundant. | says | {
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He says that if he were to express to you, once again, his own profound determination to go to the Mainland, and his faith that that return is feasible, he would merely sound redundant. | express | {
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He says that if he were to express to you, once again, his own profound determination to go to the Mainland, and his faith that that return is feasible, he would merely sound redundant. | go | {
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He says that if he were to express to you, once again, his own profound determination to go to the Mainland, and his faith that that return is feasible, he would merely sound redundant. | is | {
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He says that if he were to express to you, once again, his own profound determination to go to the Mainland, and his faith that that return is feasible, he would merely sound redundant. | sound | {
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So you yourself must seek these objective data, and come to your own conclusions. | seek | {
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So you yourself must seek these objective data, and come to your own conclusions. | come | {
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Any information we have here in Taiwan is at your disposal ''. | have | {
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Any information we have here in Taiwan is at your disposal ''. | is | {
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What are the relevant data? | are | {
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For every person on Taiwan, there are sixty in Mainland China. | are | {
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If the raw population figures are crucially relevant, then it is idle to think of liberation, as idle as to suppose that Poland might liberate Russia. | are | {
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If the raw population figures are crucially relevant, then it is idle to think of liberation, as idle as to suppose that Poland might liberate Russia. | is | {
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If the raw population figures are crucially relevant, then it is idle to think of liberation, as idle as to suppose that Poland might liberate Russia. | think of | {
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If the raw population figures are crucially relevant, then it is idle to think of liberation, as idle as to suppose that Poland might liberate Russia. | suppose | {
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If the raw population figures are crucially relevant, then it is idle to think of liberation, as idle as to suppose that Poland might liberate Russia. | liberate | {
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The estimates vary widely on the strength of the Chinese army. | vary | {
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Say four million. | Say | {
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The armed forces of Taiwan are at a working strength of about 450000, though a reserve potential twice that high is contemplated. | are | {
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The armed forces of Taiwan are at a working strength of about 450000, though a reserve potential twice that high is contemplated. | contemplated | {
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It is generally conceded that the Formosan air force is the best by far in Asia, and the army the best trained. | conceded | {
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It is generally conceded that the Formosan air force is the best by far in Asia, and the army the best trained. | is | {
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The morale is very high. | is | {
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Even so, it adds up to impossible odds, except that the question arises, On whose side would the Mainland Chinese army fight? | adds up | {
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Even so, it adds up to impossible odds, except that the question arises, On whose side would the Mainland Chinese army fight? | arises | {
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Even so, it adds up to impossible odds, except that the question arises, On whose side would the Mainland Chinese army fight? | fight | {
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The miserable people of China, the largest cast ever conscripted to enact an ideological passion play, cannot themselves resist overtly. | conscripted | {
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The miserable people of China, the largest cast ever conscripted to enact an ideological passion play, cannot themselves resist overtly. | enact | {
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The miserable people of China, the largest cast ever conscripted to enact an ideological passion play, cannot themselves resist overtly. | resist | {
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They think, perforce, of physical survival : everything else is secondary. | think | {
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They think, perforce, of physical survival : everything else is secondary. | is | {
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But the army which Mao continues to feed well, where are its sympathies? | continues | {
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But the army which Mao continues to feed well, where are its sympathies? | feed | {
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But the army which Mao continues to feed well, where are its sympathies? | are | {
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The psychological strategists in Taiwan stress the great sense of family, cultivated in China over thousands of years. | stress | {
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The psychological strategists in Taiwan stress the great sense of family, cultivated in China over thousands of years. | cultivated | {
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It has not been extirpated by ten years of Communist depersonalization. | extirpated | {
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Every soldier in the army has, somewhere, relatives who are close to starvation. | has | {
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Every soldier in the army has, somewhere, relatives who are close to starvation. | are | {
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The soldiers themselves cannot stage a successful rebellion, it is assumed : but will their discontent spread to the officer class? | stage | {
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The soldiers themselves cannot stage a successful rebellion, it is assumed : but will their discontent spread to the officer class? | assumed | {
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The soldiers themselves cannot stage a successful rebellion, it is assumed : but will their discontent spread to the officer class? | spread | {
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The immediate families of the generals and the admirals are well fed : a despot does not economize on his generals. | are | {
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The immediate families of the generals and the admirals are well fed : a despot does not economize on his generals. | economize | {
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Their privations are almost beyond endurance. | are | {
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Leninism-Marxism, as understood by Exegete Mao. | understood | {
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To whom will the generals stay loyal? | stay | {
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There is little doubt if they had a secret ballot, they would vote for food for their family, in place of ideological purity out on the farm. | had | {
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There is little doubt if they had a secret ballot, they would vote for food for their family, in place of ideological purity out on the farm. | vote | {
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It is another question whether `` they '' - or a single general, off in a corner of China, secure for a few ( galvanizing? ) | is | {
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days at least from instant retaliation - will defy the Party. | defy | {
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But the disposition to rebel is most definitely there. | rebel | {
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But the disposition to rebel is most definitely there. | is | {
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But there must be a catalytic pressure. | be | {
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The military in Taiwan believe that the Communists have made two mistakes, which, together, may prove fatal. | believe | {
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The military in Taiwan believe that the Communists have made two mistakes, which, together, may prove fatal. | made | {
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The military in Taiwan believe that the Communists have made two mistakes, which, together, may prove fatal. | prove | {
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The first was the commune program, which will ensure agricultural poverty for years. | was | {
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The first was the commune program, which will ensure agricultural poverty for years. | ensure | {
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"make certain of"
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The family is largely broken up ; and where it is not, it is left with no residue, and the social meaning of this is enormous. | is | {
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The family is largely broken up ; and where it is not, it is left with no residue, and the social meaning of this is enormous. | is | {
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The family is largely broken up ; and where it is not, it is left with no residue, and the social meaning of this is enormous. | left | {
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The family is largely broken up ; and where it is not, it is left with no residue, and the social meaning of this is enormous. | is | {
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For it is the family that, in China, has always provided social security for the indigent, the sick, the down-and-out members of the clan. | is | {
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For it is the family that, in China, has always provided social security for the indigent, the sick, the down-and-out members of the clan. | provided | {
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