Word: attacker
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...harbors of two major mainland ports, and 120 miles from Formosa, are in "the area of freedom" and must be defended on principle, is to ignore the problem of how or why they are to be defended. To state that they will be defended if they are attacked as part of a campaign against Formosa ignores the fact that it is impossible to determine whether a battle is part of a general attack against the Nationalists, and also assumes unwarrantedly that occupation of these islands bears some relation to the defense of an island over 120 miles away...
...illusion that he knows all the answers when appointed to a job in the Defense Department. "He rarely does." Civil Defense: "The concept of mass evacuation of high-density population centers and the burial of our citizenry in deep shelters would negate any kind of positive reaction to attack. It would convert our people into a horde of rabbits scurrying for warrens where they would cower helplessly while waiting the coming of a conqueror...
Died. Joseph Nye Welch, 69, Iowa-born Boston barrister who on coast-tocoast TV gently and repeatedly needled the late Senator Joseph McCarthy into fury during the 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings; of a heart attack; in Hyannis, Mass. Seventh and youngest child of English immigrants, Republican Welch worked his way through Iowa's Grinnell College and the Harvard Law School (No. 2 in the class of '17). Joining a venerable Boston law firm, he soon began making a reputation as a lawyer's lawyer, a demon at crossexamination, a suave, subtly histrionic persuader of judges and juries...
Died. Claro Recto, 70, Philippine Senator and violently outspoken nationalist; of a heart attack; in Rome, while on a world tour. Lawyer Recto presided over the framing of the Philippine constitution in 1934-35, served as Foreign Minister in the puppet government set up by the Japanese in World War II, returned to the Senate at war's end. An early supporter of the Philippines' late President Ramon Magsaysay, Recto soon turned bitterly against him, claimed that Magsaysay had welshed on a promise to serve only one term. Recto avidly sought the presidency for himself but never could...
Shirer makes the famous case that Hit ler's own mistakes hurt him more in the war's later stages than did his enemies in the field. His attack on Russia, his failure to follow through in North Africa, his preference of annihilation to retreat, and finally his own retreat into a world of pure fantasy brought on his doom. When the end came, he had no wish to spare Germany. After all. "those who will remain after the battle are only the inferior ones, for the good ones have been killed...