Word: defenders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Without being anti-Catholic, Americans must learn to defend our traditional rights to freedom of belief or disbelief...
Speaking first, Muchnick asserted that "avowed or proven" members of the Communist Party should be prohibited from teaching in American schools. Drawing an analogy between moral corruption and the beliefs of the Communist Party, Muchnick said it was the duty of American legislators to defend the nation's youth against what he termed the "political immorality" of those who advocate the revolutionary overthrow of the government...
MacArthur last week proclaimed anew Japan's conversion to democracy. Whenever talk of East Asia congealed with gloom, someone said: "Japan is the hope." And whoever looked at the possibilities of protecting Western Europe said: "The Germans will defend us." Winston Churchill, who used to call the Germans "the dull brute mass," more recently referred to them as "a mighty race without whose effective aid the glory of Europe could not be revived...
Bevin & Cripps would argue that Britain's ultimate aim, like America's, was a competitive, freer-trading world outside what Bevin calls "the ruble area." But they would also defend Britain's present bilateral trade deals with other countries (e.g., Argentina) as an unavoidable expedient so long as the dollar shortage lasts. They would have a fairly shrewd notion of the American climate of opinion, of what they might ask and expect to receive...
...disasters of falling living standards," declared the Economist, "of a collapsing sterling area and a disintegrating Commonwealth against which the government wishes to defend the country are implicit in the policies they are still pursuing. With or without American assistance they will in the near future be compelled to devalue, to cut costs, to increase output and to tackle the problem of productivity...