Word: aggressors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stood in the present world crisis could ask no more-if Nehru's statement meant what it seemed to mean. However, in other speeches throughout the week Nehru made it clear that he was against aligning India with the U.S. in a concerted effort to contain the only aggressor in sight. Americans who looked upon U.S. policy as a bulwark against the Communist threat to freedom would find little satisfaction in some other Nehru remarks of the week: "We have no intention to commit ourselves to anybody at any time . . . How can peace be preserved? Not by surrendering...
...freedom to the people of Kashmir." Nehru told them: "My anxiety has always been for a fair and impartial plebiscite." There was, however, a noticeable lessening of Indian enthusiasm for a plebiscite. Instead, the Indian press trotted out the old charge that Pakistan had entered Kashmir as a military aggressor and ought to be punished as such. Abdullah told the convention: "We want to tell the whole world that Kashmir has decided, whatever difficulties may arise, we will always be with India...
...Montgomery remembers Nov. 15, 1923 very clearly. He had just quit his steel-hustling job at a Waukegan machine plant and was having a game of 10? black ball at the Aggressor Pool Hall with his friend, Finis Moore. But Jim and Finis got to arguing and suddenly they were heaving pool balls at each other...
Acheson insisted that the bill contained "the minimum amount required" to equip "the very modest forces" which Europe had on hand. The U.S. was not arming Europe to resist an all-out attack: "What is required is rather sufficient strength to make it impossible for an aggressor to achieve a quick and easy victory...
...Staff Omar Bradley, flanked by the Navy's Admiral Denfeld and the Air Force's General Hoyt Vandenberg, spoke for the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Said Missouri-born Omar Bradley, whose vivid prose is the match of Acheson's: "We can surely anticipate that any aggressor will alternatively press and quell the crises, hoping to hold the [North Atlantic Treaty] powers in perpetual irresolution. But irresolution has no apology. It is born of fear and selfishness and of such meanness that all despise...