Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...idealists with their 'higher reasons' commit more sins against men than the materialists. I believed in these 'higher reasons' as a young man; but there are no such things...
When the first U.S. battalions reached Korea, the U.S. commanders had to decide whether to commit them piecemeal, or to build up in greater safety behind the Kum River and wait for the enemy to come south. MacArthur and Dean chose the former. It remained to be seen whether the time gained was worth the cost in casualties and heartbreak to the U.S. troops. Last week they took a severe beating. As this week began, the U.S. troops, with tanks and better artillery reaching them at last, showed signs of standing their ground...
Somehow, the incredulous police surmised, Long had managed to commit murder, automobile theft and possibly abduction under the very noses of the FBI. Portlanders gasped with dismay and wondered how it could have happened. The taciturn men of the FBI offered only an embarrassed, partial explanation-they had seen Long drive off with the carpenter, feared they would be spotted if they followed them into the wide-open countryside, left Long uncovered from midnight...
...matter was put on the agenda of a National Security Council meeting Dec. 29, 1949. General Omar Bradley stated the case for holding Formosa. He made a bad job of it. Acheson dominated the meeting with a few well-chosen questions. Example: Were the armed forces ready & willing to commit the necessary forces to hold Formosa...
Representatives of the armed forces answered that they were not willing to commit major portions of U.S. strength to the island. Nobody asked the pertinent question: Would it cost the U.S. more in terms of commitment of armed strength to hold Formosa or to lose Formosa? The discussion degenerated into fuzzy agreement with Acheson that nothing could or should be done. When Truman looked around the room for dissenters to the Acheson view, he did not hear any, although several of the officials went away muttering that the wrong policy had been adopted...