Word: aggressor
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Stressing that a policy of military containment is not effective against the Soviet Union's psychological, economic, and political threat, Morgenthau maintained that many nations now regard the United States, not the Russians, as the aggressor. Military strength should receive less emphasis than it now he added. "We must learn to bargain, promise, threaten, compromise...
...Surprise attack undoubtedly has its advantages . . . However, the opportunity of an answering blow remains. [Thus] nuclear war is not only extraordinarily dangerous for the victim, but it is also suicide for the aggressor himself." ¶ "Local wars were possible [in past centuries] . . . War, in reality, has become either a prelude to world war, or, in its own way, the end of world...
...plainclothesmen mingled in the restive crowds on the perimeter. On Khrushchev's first night in town, knots of Hungarian and Polish refugees gathered with banners that screamed KHRUSHCHEV IS A MURDERER, KHRUSHCHEV, GO HOME, and handed out pamphlets with such arresting titles as Nikita, Scat, You Dirty Aggressor, You Bloodstained Butcher, You Bestial Executioner, Scat. Cries of "Butcher!" and "Murderer!" rattled the accustomed tranquillity of Park Avenue...
...position," and in the best wifely tradition, Mrs. Thompson announced that she was ready to accept all blame for the argument. But before tempers cooled, Nikita had spelled out one of his purposes in coming to the U.N.: to ask the General Assembly "to judge the U.S. as an aggressor" because of the U-2 and RB-47 flights...
...according to this law. But we are not a defenseless passerby. If the U.S. has not yet experienced a real war on its territory, has not experienced air raids, and if it wishes to unleash a war, we shall be compelled to fire rockets which will explode on the aggressor's territory in the very first minutes...