Word: attack
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Paris heard last week that the Communists planned a full-scale attack on Tonkin's Red River delta at the next full moon. Premier Rene Pleven called General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, one of France's best soldiers, and asked him to take on the tough job of defending Indo-China. Said De Lattre: "I accept because it is my duty...
...Asked whether the U.S. would be justified in using the atom bomb, Geopolitician Father Edmund A. Walsh, S J., of Georgetown University, said: "If the Government of the United States has sound reason to believe . . . that. . . attack is being mounted and ready ... it would appear that President Truman would be morally justified to take defensive measures proportionate to the danger. That would mean use of the atomic bomb, as no power would launch a surprise attack on the United States without an adequate supply of atomic bombs . . . Neither reason nor theology nor morals requires men or nations to commit suicide...
...could "create my music only to my texts" because "both text and music in an unprecedented sense are based ... on the German language and the German spirit." Until the day in 1883 when he slumped over his desk in Venice, stricken with a fatal heart attack, he believed in himself as "the most German of the Germans...
Died. Herbert Marcus, 72, co-founder (in 1907, with his sister and brother-in-law) of Dallas' mirrored, perfumed, high-styled specialty store, Neiman-Marcus; of a heart attack; in Dallas...
...never publicize one charity from the Combined Charities Committee's list of eight more than any of the other seven. It might be legitimate to criticize the CRIMSON for not giving even more publicity than it did to the drive as a whole. It is certainly not legitimate to attack any newspaper for failure to pick out Dean Hall's favorite charity and publicize it more than the others. The CRIMSON agrees wholeheartedly with Dean Hall that the Community Fund drive is very important and of both direct and indirect benefit to Harvard students. We are sorry that we could...