Word: aggressors
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...support the Nationalist Chinese in an invasion of the China mainland, that it blockade Red China and bomb Red China's bases. Its allies, he added, must be summoned to supply more troops in the Far East and take the step of unequivocally declaring Red China an aggressor. Said Bridges: "Our men . . . should not be expected to battle any longer against the diplomatic odds which cripple their magnificent efforts...
...negotiation with the Red Chinese. Was this the Administration's only answer? Last week, after five weeks of vain waiting for the Chinese to agree to a cease-fire in Korea, the U.S. made a behind-the-scenes appeal to the U.N. General Assembly: declare China an aggressor. More tentatively, it suggested that the U.N. should consider imposing economic and political sanctions against the Chinese Reds. There was little disposition among the European and Asiatic nations to go along with either proposition. But that was the only answer the Administration seemed to have...
...transgress even this restricted legal loop. The U.N. instantly reacted. But when Mac Arthur was chasing the Korean Reds toward the 38th parallel, an outcry arose that showed how deeply the border-crossing fetish had sunk into the Western mind. MacArthur, it was held, would in become an aggressor if he crossed the parallel in pursuit of the criminal force...
...Battle. The Senator was the aggressor. He announced at once that he was going to blast Pearson's hide off with a Senate speech the very next day, and he kept jumping up during dinner to repeat the announcement. Finally Pearson asked him how his Wisconsin income-tax case was progressing (the state is ordering McCarthy to explain his nonpayment of last year's taxes). Forthwith the burly Senator grabbed the 6-foot columnist by the neck and invited him outside to fight. Pearson agreed. They were duly separated, but when Pearson went to the cloakroom McCarthy followed...
...Chiang slowly moved toward Mao's hideout, Stalin moved to Mao's rescue. The new Comintern slogan was "united front" against the mounting fascist threat of Japan. It was successful. Chiang's campaign against the Communists was deflected and dissipated into resistance against a more powerful aggressor. The Chinese Red army was saved. It proceeded to expand spectacularly. During the eight years of the Japanese war, following Mao's directive "90% against the Kuomintang, 10% against the Japanese," it grew from 25,000 to 910,000 men, claimed control of 50 million people...