Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Britain made the same mistake again? There was talk of going ahead firmly with a Southeast Asia treaty to protect what was left. But no sooner had Eden returned than Churchill summoned the Cabinet. Having "achieved" an Indo-China peace, Churchill was thinking that now was the time, when the Communists were being "reasonable," to repeat the pattern and get a settlement with the Communists on Germany. Molotov, who had planned it that way, promptly helped the move along by his proposal for a new conference on "European security...
...unfortunate incident," offered to pay compensation and said its pilots had mistaken the British plane for a Chinese Nationalist bomber. A few hours later the State Department announced that there was more to the story than had been told: two U.S. planes, from two carriers assigned to "cover and protect" rescue operations, had shot down two Chinese Communist planes which had attacked them over the high seas while they were searching for survivors...
...they must have help from somewhere. I am willing to give it to them ... I am willing to spend some billions to help our allies and other democracies of the world to be strong and stay strong ... I plead with you ... to do the thing here today to preserve, protect, defend and perpetuate not only this, the greatest democracy that ever existed in all the tide of time, but the other democracies of this unhappy, this distraught and this dangerous world...
...footprint said to be that of the eternal Buddha lies preserved within the Golden Pagoda at Luang Prabang the royal capital. It is believed to protect the Laotians from their enemies. Laos has been invaded by Tibetans, Mongols, Javanese Annamites, Indians, Chinese, Frenchmen and Khmers, but the craggy, mountainous state has survived with its ethnic unity just about intact. More than two-thirds of Its people are Laotians and related Thais. Its language is still its own native Thai. Its religion is still Buddhism. Even the French prefer to channel their rule through Laotian kings, and they have established their...
...part-Chinese stock. About 150 years ago, the Annamites split into warring factions, and French missionnaires and traders moved in along the coast. By 1802, the French were strong enough to install a puppet king on the imperial throne of Annam; by 1870, the French army was ashore to protect French interests; by 1900, the French had all of Indo-China...