Word: understood
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...apparent caution merely recognized the inevitable lag between intent and performance. With Charlie Wilson on the job, more rigors and more vigor could be expected. On performance, not alone on words, would the U.S. be able to judge how well Harry Truman and the rest of the nation understood the urgency of his own words: "The future of civilization depends on what we do-on what we do now and in the months ahead...
...came from abroad. Best of the lot, and the best of all World War II novels of infantry fighting, was New Zealander Guthrie Wilson's first novel, Brave Company, a book that most writers of war novels could read with profit. Briton Alexander Baron showed that he, too, understood his infantrymen in The Wine of Etna, a novel about British troops in Sicily...
...world wars, the U.S. bears a measure of guilt in not making this concern clear to those who were to become her enemies. One of the friends of the U.S. understood without being told. Commager, in his introduction, repeats a Winston Churchill story: the day of Pearl Harbor, some Britons doubted that the easygoing U.S. had the will and stamina to fight as it would have to fight. Says Churchill: "But I had studied the American Civil War, fought out to the last desperate inch ... I went to bed and slept the sleep of the saved and thankful...
...seemed fully confident that he and Stalin understood each other. As early as 1941 he wrote to Admiral William D. Leahy: "I do not think we need worry about any possibility of Russian domination" in Europe. He wrote Pope Pius XII: "I believe there is a real possibility that Russia may as a result of the present conflict recognize freedom of religion in Russia...
Just to make sure that everyone understood these things, Ike Eisenhower spoke up in Dallas, repeating a lesson the U.S. had learned. "Russia knows the U.S. cannot live by itself alone. They know if they can break us away from the rest of the world, we are beaten without...