Word: aggressor
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...Eastern authority explained that China is now in the Russian camp, opposed to the United States. "This situation will not change soon," he said. "We can't admit them into the U.N. without giving them the Nationalist's Security Council seat, which in effect would be rewarding an aggressor for his aggression...
...champion of a moral order in politics" [TIME, Sept. 28] ; on the other, we have the British, "soaked in the politics of expediency . . . working behind the scenes trying to unseat" this noble figure . . . Should we laugh at this picture of our Machiavellian activities or cry, knowing that for the aggressors every war has been undertaken as a moral crusade? . . . If I knew I were to be the victim of aggression, I would prefer that my aggressor was prompted by honest-to-goodness motives of rape and plunder...
...aiding in aggression upon South Korea and making war on the United Nations, it has proved itself an aggressor state...
...jest proved just a jest. In Ljubljana gap, the mountain corridor leading from the Hungarian plains to Zagreb, Rijeka and Trieste, a group of military observers and reporters from six NATO nations watched while 65,000 Yugoslavs maneuvered. Spruce and high-spirited, they were divided into an "aggressor" force and a defending force covering Zagreb. They maneuvered with Sherman tanks, trucks, jeeps, 90-mm. guns, U.S.-made F47 fighters (World War II's Thunderbolts) and British Mosquitoes, and they handled them with facility...
...weak spot was a battalion parachute drop; an aggressor cavalry force, led by a saber-swinging commander, was in among the paratroops before they got ready to fight. But on the whole, the foreigners were impressed. Said Sir John Harding, chief of the British Imperial General Staff: "The allied program of giving weapons to Yugoslavia can go ahead." Said Major General Charles Palmer, chief of staff of U.S. Army Field Forces: "They took hold of American equipment in good shape, even though they had some of it only a short time...