Word: answer
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Caution. It seemed to Harry Truman that there were an awful lot of armchair experts in this country who knew just what ought to be done in Korea. In answer to a question, he said that of course he was still hopeful about Korea, and that it would turn out all right. Despite the headlines, over the weekend he expected a change for the better...
Washington refused even to reply formally to the Soviet note, unofficially dismissed it as an absurd invention of Soviet propagandists* to explain away the failure of the 1950 potato crop in Eastern Germany. But in Prague last week, U.S. Ambassador Ellis O. Briggs decided to answer the Czech complaint in the same fine spirit with which it had been offered...
...seven votes were sufficient, although the Soviet Union later claimed that its own absence from the council table made the action illegal. Eleanor Roosevelt had the answer to that. In London she said: "All this talk of [Russia's] about the Security Council decision not being legal because she's not there, well, whose fault is it that she's not?" By week's end, 40 nations were in line and offers of armed aid for Korea had poured in from every corner of the earth...
Part of the answer was that the U.S. armed forces were designed for another kind of war: an all-out war in which a direct attack by Moscow was to be directly answered by atom-bomb-packed B-36s. The effectiveness of that kind of force had not been disproved by first week setbacks in Korea. But already Louis Johnson's touted economy program was looking downright absurd. Last week, to meet the 1951 budget limitations dictated by Johnson, the Navy decommissioned the last of 14 large carrier air groups, reducing its total groups to nine...
...this concentrated assault? And why should it come just now?" asked Fraser. His answer: it was partly retaliation for last year's prolonged strike at Asbestos, Que., in which certain clerics defied the Duplessis government and supported labor. "Leader in this prolabor, anti-Duplessis swing was Msgr. Joseph Charbonneau, Archbishop of Montreal, [who] last winter was summarily dismissed. Ostensibly he retired 'for reasons of health.'. . . Against Levesque [and his followers] are all the men who want Quebec to stay exactly as it is, or . . . as it was 50 years ago; for him, the men who believe change...