Word: aggressors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stimson and Knox meant what they said in an Order of the Day on the opening of China's sixth year at war: "The Army and Navy of the U.S. salute their comrades-in-arms in China, and join with them in the firm determination to expel the aggressor from every foot of Chinese soil...
...mechanical arms. . . ." Until the days of mechanized armies, says Kiralfy, the problem of invading Asia was almost as difficult for modern armies as for Alexander the Great. But "the dive-bomber and the tank have removed many of the hardships and perils which formerly confronted an aggressor." And the aggressor that is now whipsawing his way through Burma is the most populous of the Axis nations. Expert Kir-alfy is alarmed by visions of Japanese forces striking at Alaska and Canada or crashing through Russia's Siberian rear. But the thought that throws him into a cold intellectual sweat...
Satyagraha in India is not so nonsensical as it appears to Western eyes. It has even more cogency in Hindu India than isolationism once had in the U.S. Gandhi's followers have always regarded Satyagraha as the best way to fight would-be aggressors. It is not a pro-Jap policy except in possible effect. As explained by the Congress: "We may not bend the knee to an aggressor. . . . If he wishes to take pos session of our homes and our fields we must refuse to give them up, even if we have to die in an effort...
Says Gandhi himself: "The underlying belief is that the aggressor will, in time, be mentally and even physically tired of killing non-violent resisters...
Japs to the North? When & where the Japanese would strike, only the Japanese knew. They still had the aggressor's supreme advantage. Not for many months would General MacArthur have the force to seize the full offensive advantage for himself. Meantime he had to judge where the Japanese might strike, and prepare accordingly, lest he lose in southern Australia the continent's main ports, population and production centers, the place where he could assemble his forces for offense...