Word: aggressor
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...Hitler had once said: "Our enemies are little worms-I saw them in Munich." There was a parallel in the situation today. "But the odds are not yet on Russia or war," said Forrestal, "the odds are still on the U.S. and peace. . . . For once in world history an aggressor will be forewarned of our determination backed up by our strength...
...Regional organization" and "automatic" aid against any aggressor were, clearly, part of what Western Europe expected of a Western Union...
...cannot long survive as a mere citadel of self-indulging privilege, surrounded by massed human misery." But he proposed as a parallel to continuing U.S. aid "some sort of a customs and monetary union . . . [and] sufficient political unity so that these states will present a solid front to any aggressor...
...Urge the countries of Europe to form an economic union; promise them flatly to go to war to protect them from an aggressor...
...Force the U.S. has ever had, declared: "I do feel that the maintenance ... of peace in the world depends upon the strength of the United States." The commission agreed with him. The mere existence of a great U.S. force, in fact, might be a deterrent to a world aggressor. Peace might yet be achieved through the very instrument which had become the world's most destructive force: air power...