Word: aggressors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would refer to my prewar writings, you will find that what I actually suggested was that the war might start in a restrained way-with the aggressor only attacking small states, while the big powers on either side refrained from striking direct at each other. That forecast was borne out in September, 1939, and for the nine months following...
...Francisco, became even more inescapable with every month that passed. People everywhere sincerely sought two objectives that were hard to reconcile. They wanted a world organization strong enough to keep peace; they also wanted their own nations to be really sovereign, i.e., strong enough to defend themselves against any "aggressor," including the world organization...
...keep track of other nations' progress. Ely Culbertson, the bridge expert turned international prophet, had a daring plan. The nub: give a beefed-up international organization (not U.N.O.) surveillance over atomic and heavy-weapon production, plus enough atomic and other armed force to quell any potential aggressor...
...could have watched these developments with greater interest than the Japanese. Three months had passed since Russia denounced its non-aggression pact with Japan. (Unusual candid shots of Stalin making the speech in which he branded Japan an "aggressor" nation reached the U.S. last week-.) For the Japanese the question of the Red Army's future role in Asia remained what U.S. Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall last week called "the great imponderable...
Council's power in its Big-Power members, but made any effective action by the organization impossible without the unanimous consent of the Big Powers. In short, any one of the Big Powers may "veto" such action-even if it is an aggressor...