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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “I deplore this further instance of armed aggression by Communist China and hope that that state can be persuaded to…”

On the recordOctober 31, 1962
I deplore this further instance of armed aggression by Communist China and hope that that state can be persuaded to abandon its flagrant violation of the territorial integrity of its neighbors.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Message to the President of the Inter-Parliamentary Council.

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