Word: aggressors
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...Republican House and Senate leaders in the Cabinet Room. He had called them together, he explained, to dis cuss a rider which the Senate Appropriations Committee had unexpectedly at tached to the $1.1 billion appropriation for the Departments of State, Justice and Commerce. The rider proclaimed that, if any aggressor government, i.e., Communist China, should be admitted to the United Nations, the U.S. would forthwith cut off all financial support...
...made during World War II (over 4,000,000 have been made for the Army). Said Gunsmith Garand, looking at his famous product: "I've never felt bad about designing the rifle even though its only real use is in war. If it were used by an aggressor nation, then I'd be sorry...
...Renaissance pope issuing a bull, Toynbee first divides contemporary mankind into two blocs: on one hand, the World; on the other, the West. The West, like its principal challenger, Russia, is an "ex-Christian" civilization. But not only is the West without a faith; it is "the arch-aggressor of modern times." The World, and especially Russia, "invaded by Western armies overland in 1941, 1915, 1812, 1709 and 1610," has reason to mistrust the West. Toynbee avoids embarrassing this general thesis by any mention of the invasions of the West by the World, e.g., those of Islam and Genghis Khan...
...President declined to back a proposal made by California's Senator Bill Knowland to name Russia as an aggressor in Korea. When a reporter mentioned Joe McCarthy's opposition to Charles ("Chip") Bohlen as ambassador to Moscow, Eisenhower backed Bohlen's nomination. He went on record against New York's Daniel Reed on a tax cut, and against Senator John W. Bricker's proposed constitutional amendment to limit the treatymaking power...
...There is but one sure way to avoid total war," said he, "and that is to win the cold war." By implication he acknowledged that the U.S. would have to take risks, no matter what its policies. "While retaliatory power is one strong deterrent to a would-be aggressor, another powerful deterrent is defensive power, [and] total defensive strength must include civil-defense preparedness. Because we have incontrovertible evidence that Soviet Russia possesses atomic weapons, this kind of protection becomes sheer necessity...