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Issue Details: First known date: 2017... 2017 Stump
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'When Stump got elected, there was a collective intake of breath - as if the news of someone's death had been announced. At first everyone thought it was a joke and they went on thinking that for quite some time. but soon he showed that if he was a joke, it was a joke based om the blackest of black humour. Eisenhower, that two faced ninny, had at least retained a grip on reality. When Allan Dulles, director of the CIA, wanted to invaded Vietnam to help the French out in Dien Bien Phu, Eisenhower said, 'If we do so the Vietnamese could be expected to transfer their hatred of the French to us.' even Churchill, that inveterate old war monger, turned Dulles down. 'we have to face the fact that the fortress is lost', he rumbled. Dulles refused to accept it. Ho was a Communist, so he had to go. It was inconceivable to Dulles that Ho could have the last laugh. a sparrow could not defeat an eagle. Churchill knew that... (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Polestar vol. 33 2017 12326844 2017 periodical issue 2017 pg. 37-44
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