Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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November: Nothing special happened except our club elected officers. I didn't make...
Cars were halted in two half-mile-long lines at the Matanuska Valley town of Palmer. Blankets and C-rations were assigned, though not actually issued. But mechanics inspected every gas tank, oil gauge, transmission, differential, battery, oil filter, radiator and tire to make sure everything was in working order. Soldiers handed out dummy orders and authorized mock money allotments, and women were instructed on driving in convoys for the sake of safety...
...blunder of tragic proportions. The U.S. would lose more than it could hope to gain. In such a situation the question of the morality of preventive war, which troubles many Americans, may not even arise. Whether or not preventive war is morally bad, the facts of 1950 make it military nonsense...
...Western Europe were vigorously defended by 60 good European and U.S. divisions. Under these circumstances 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...
...Neither Europe nor the U.S. wants to move fast enough to make Europe defensible by 1953. A later date would be more "realistic...