Word: aggressors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After some difficulty, and by unknown means, the faculty discovered that on the night of March 22 one Wainwright Foster had been guilty of conduct toward a certain George English which was "insulting and irritating in both words and actions." Foster, who seemed the aggressor, thereafter challenged English to a duel that same evening. As Mr. English was not one to go off half-cocked, he refused to defend his honor that evening, but promised to do so the next morning if Mr. Foster insisted. Foster was very insistent, and seconds were duly appointed--a Mr. Bullard...
...wood east of Cambridge. After the preliminaries of loading the pistols, without shot, and of walking ten paces, Foster aimed directly at English, and English aimed directly into the air. As this produced no effect whatsoever, except a loud noise, a second exchange was ordered--by Foster. Again the aggressor aimed at English, and English again aimed straight upward...
Chinese Communists in and outside the United Nations that would imply the recognition of any Communist aggressors' gains." Said Nationalist Foreign Minister George Yeh: "A cease-fire proposal without taking into consideration the distinction between the aggressor, who should be punished, and the victim of aggression, who should be protected by justice, is tantamount to encouraging international aggression...
...atomic and hydrogen bombs. Informed military men say that a defending force could use these tactical explosives in an actual fighting zone to break up an enemy attack. Atomic attacks against enemy cities would be unnecessary to repulse aggression, so long as repulsion and not complete destruction of the aggressor country remained the objective. It is important that the President announce in advance of actual war an American decision to reject the policy of massive retaliation. A declaration to that effect might help to reassure the Chinese Communists that the United States intends to contain them, not destroy them...
...vital Security Council representation to keep the seat in Nationalist hands, for the present holders clearly cannot speak for the people of China. On the other hand, granting of this seat to the Mao Tse-tung government would have adverse consequences. Communist China has been several times branded an aggressor, and it might weaken U.N. prestige to make this condemned power the only permanent Asian representative on the Security Council, and thus in a sense the leader of Asian opinion. Senator Hubert Humphrey has recommended that the Security Council seat should be given to India, when the U.N. Charter comes...