Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...said: "Under these circumstances [60 U.S. and European divisions ready to defend Europe], the free world could reasonably hope that the Kremlin would suspend its present aggressive drive. Only under such circumstances would talk of the 'peaceful coexistence' of the free world and the U.S.S.R. begin to make sense...
...going to continue to be a Communist, but that doesn't mean that your papers must continually preach hatred of the U.S. and it doesn't mean that you must slavishly obey orders from Moscow . . . If the new China learns to make tanks before she learns to manufacture trucks and tractors, it will be a world tragedy. Yours is the opportunity...
Robert Taft did in fact appear in western Illinois to speak a word for Dirksen and castigate the Fair Deal. He arrived by plane at the Galesburg airport, rode out to Galesburg's Drive-In Theater to address, a Sunday crowd of 5,000. Dirksen was there to make an introduction while tired Bob Taft, with enough to do to get himself re-elected in Ohio, studied his notes and yawned unabashedly...
...Walker on Aug. 7 mounted the first sustained U.S. counterattack of the war, to drive the enemy back from his disquieting proximity to Pusan. General Craig's marines joined this "spoiling attack," but Walker pulled them out after they had helped to upset the enemy. He had to make shift with what troops were already at hand, shuttling them from one crisis to another. The next reserves due to arrive-the bulk of the 1st Marine Division from the U.S. and the 7th Infantry from Japan-were earmarked for Operation Chromite, the invasion at Inchon...
Stalin's defeat in Korea would not prevent him from trying again-whenever he saw an opportunity to extend the Kremlin's sway. But Korea would almost certainly make Stalin more cautious about further adventures. Korea had looked like a sure thing, and it had blown up in Stalin's face...