“there is bound to be an inevitable confrontation between the communists and our democacy in the military front,” I have always said…
…The communists gamble that the Republic will be too weak by then as they will have sapped our vitality…
…I have also said that if we do not now take measures of self-preservation, this will come about.
My democratic revolution will rally the great majority of our people around our republic…
So if there is going to be an inevitable collision, then perhaps we should induce it now while communists are weak and disorganized.
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