Word: aggressor
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...Defense is a psychological attack. . . . If ... attack is met by attack, the aggressor government is enabled to consolidate its people by representing to them that they are fighting to defend their homes. Such misrepresentation becomes far more difficult to maintain if the attack is met by defense. This tends to weaken the will of the enemy people. . . . This state of mind, and loss of spirit, will develop all the sooner if the offensive cam paign produces no results comparable to its cost. There is nothing more demoralizing to troops than to see the corpses of their comrades piled...
...Labor Boss Leon Jouhaux adopted a resolution which described Russia's gobbling up of three-fifths of Poland (see p. 29) as "a premeditated treason consummated against peace, and an act of treachery toward the proletariat, which had been summoned to rise against Naziism. This aid to an aggressor government places in jeopardy the lives of millions upon millions of human beings, including millions of workers...
...person in the room doubted Franklin Roosevelt's sincerity, but neither was anyone in the slightest doubt as to where lay the sympathy, the potent human partisanship, of this President of the United States. He was against Germany, against the aggressor, against totalitarianism, against Adolf Hitler the dictator and Adolf Hitler the man perhaps mad. His every word henceforth would be weighed in the light of his own injunction, which he now laid upon the Press, to stick rigidly to the facts because "that's best for our own nation-and for civilization." His deeds and those...
...Party"; 2) the Soviet Union and the Communist Party in the U. S. have neither abandoned nor compromised their fight on world Fascism; 3) the Pact constitutes "a distinct contribution to world peace"; 4) when disclosed in toto, the agreement would leave Russia a way out if Germany turned aggressor. (Until last week, U. S. Communists supposed that Germany already was an aggressor...
...weakness of even-handed embargoes is that in practice they are quite capable of working to the long term disadvantage and danger of the U. S. The weakness of embargoes against aggressor nations only is that they may lead to near-term difficulties and dangers. If the U. S. were to apply economic sanctions against Japan as an "aggressor" without first enlisting the cooperation of the British fleet and fortified Singapore Base, it would probably find itself hard put to it to keep its trade lanes open to the Malayan Archipelago, whence comes most U. S. rubber...