Word: aggressor
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...have learned," said the President, "that the free world cannot indefinitely remain in a posture of paralyzed tension. To do so leaves forever to the aggressor the choice of time and place and means to cause greatest hurt to us at least cost to himself. This Administration has, therefore, begun the definition of a new, positive foreign policy . . . governed by certain basic ideas." In enumerating the basic ideas, the President did some important fixing of old policy failures. Along...
Then the President turned to reassess the Korean war. He ignored the happy delusion that the Korean war, of itself, is somehow a "lesson" which has taught Communists the folly of aggression. Said he: "It is clearly a part of the same calculated assault that the aggressor is simultaneously pressing in Indo-China and in Malaya, and of the strategic situation that manifestly embraces the island of Formosa and the Chinese Nationalist forces there." With the war thus redefined, his next step was easy...
...shall never try to placate an aggressor by the false and wicked bargain of trading honor for security. For, in the final choice, a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains...
...heights of self-assertion in an implied comparison of his own foreign policy and that of F.D.R. Sketching in the background of the U.S. decision to intervene in Korea-"the decision I believe was the most important in my time as President"-Truman recalled the easy conquests of aggressor nations in the 1930s-Manchuria, Ethiopia, the Rhineland, Austria, Czechoslovakia. He went on: "Think about those years of weakness and indecision and World War II. which was their evil result. Then think about the speed and courage and decisiveness with which we have moved against the Communist threat since World...
...those who made us suffer so much, and we desire to forget their cruelties if they agree not to forget them, certain apologies for their discipline and their will to power, in comparison with an alleged carelessness on the French side, hurt us profoundly. It is as if the aggressor merited more encouragement than the victim...