Word: aggressors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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GREAT numbers of well-intentioned, idealistic persons have accepted the contention that peace and order can be secured only by binding the "peace-loving" nations in an agreement to use their armed forces in concert to restrain or punish an aggressor. The collective security idea was inserted into the Charter of the United Nations. But the member states in the U.N. have never been willing to provide the forces. And as for "collective security" from common action by national armies, the Security Council veto takes care of that. Yet regional pacts as instruments of collective security are as illusory...
...situation, to the admission of Red China. Can the United States possibly say this government should be admitted, asked the President, in view of the fact that Red China excoriated the U.N. at Geneva, that she is at war with the U.N., and that she has been declared an aggressor...
...case that was followed tensely in Tennessee, Jenkins defended a Negro youth who had stabbed a white man to death. The prosecution contended that the boy had stabbed his victim in the back, and asked the death penalty. Jenkins proved that the white man was the aggressor, that he suddenly turned his back to get another weapon just as the fatal blow struck. The jury took only a few minutes to acquit...
...breathing martial fire in Moscow before the Supreme Soviet. Said Premier Malenkov, to one parliamentary chamber: "If the aggressive circles banking on the atomic weapon should resort to madness, and should want to test the strength and might of the Soviet Union, there can be no doubt that the aggressor would be crushed . . ." Party Secretary Nikita Khrushchev told the other chamber: "It will inevitably end in the collapse of the whole capitalist system...
...Korea after telling Communism that new aggression will mean all-out war, and after telling Rhee that an attack to the north would make him an aggressor who could expect no help...