Let specialties be therefore drawne betweene vs, That couenants may be kept on either hand.

[…] how can those graunts of the Kings be avoyded, without wronging of those lords, which had those lands and lordships given them?

In a long cable on February 25 Secretary Dulles replied that he had talked with Anthony Eden about the Formosa crisis, reminding him that successful pressure on Chiang to surrender Quemoy and Matsu would permit the Chinese Communists to attack from the harbors of Amoy and Foochow, and invite the Chinese Communists to put to the test American resolution to defend Formosa.

The cane swishes.