Word: geopoliticians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...retiring General Alfred M. Gruenther, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, smiled a bony smile. One big thing still needed to be said publicly to back up the week's U.S. diplomacy. Now Gruenther, with specific White House authority, set about saying it in terms that no Communist geopolitician could misunderstand. "The main purpose and the guiding principle that we always have," he began, "is to deter a war from taking place . . . Probably the outstanding element in the deterrent as of today, the 13th of November, 1956, is the fact that we have air units with an overwhelming capacity which...
Died. The Rev. Edmund Aloysius Walsh, S.J., 71, geopolitician, longtime foe of Communism and leading authority on Russia, who founded (1919) and directed (1919-55) Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service; of a brain hemorrhage; in Washington, D.C. Jesuit Walsh directed (1922-23) a Papal Relief Mission in Russia, denounced Communism bitterly on his return to the U.S., warned against disarmament, advocated universal military training after World War II, said (1950) that the U.S. would be "morally justified'' in starting a preventive A-bomb war if it had "moral certitude" that a sneak attack were imminent...
Died. Major Henry Shaw Beukema, 29, son-in-law (since 1944) of General of the Army Omar N. Bradley, son of West Point's Geopolitician Colonel Herman Beukema; when his Thunderjet fighter crashed into the York River, near Williamsburg...
...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...