Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...home front, he called for immediate economic mobilization under a strong administrator with full authority over economic controls, production and civilian manpower. Abroad, he said, the U.S. should make it plain which areas of the world it is prepared to defend, should form a military alliance with Tito and Franco, arm the Germans, Japanese and Nationalist Chinese, limit Marshall aid to countries which would help the U.S. fight in case...
Asked if the U.S. could not similarly defend itself against an A-bomb attack, Dr. Bush said: "I don't think we have had the depth of attention given to the danger...
...leader of the U.N. coalition, was not preparing to defend all of South Korea. But neither was it planning to quit the peninsula altogether-at least not now. During its retreat, the Eighth Army stood first on "Line Able" below Pyongyang, and when that failed to hold, withdrew to "Line Baker," just below the 38th parallel. Since this line would become untenable as soon as the sluggish Chinese were ready to strike, the next move would be to "Position Charlie"-which will consist only of two beachhead perimeters, one around Seoul and Inchon, the other one at Pusan...
...wholly in accord with the traditional concepts of diplomatic conduct . . . The peoples of Latin America [must] realize and appreciate the magnitude of our effort and sacrifice in treasure and blood in the far-flung fields of the East-West conflict . . . While we are making these sacrifices to defend our national integrity, we are [contributing] very particularly to the security of the entire hemisphere...
...Protestant Fundamentalist Carl Mclntire's International Council of Churches (TIME, May 16, 1949) was in agreement. Use of the bomb "to defend human freedom, if necessary" would offend no moral principles, it declared...