Word: aggressors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pointer Vandenberg refused to be goaded into name-calling or personal acrimony. Quietly, doggedly, and with great clarity, he plugged away at explaining the gospel of strategic air power. This gospel held that the long-range bomber, always poised with its devastating atomic load to strike back at an aggressor, is the most pow erful U.S. weapon and the best deterrent...
...said: ¶ Does not intend to recognize Communist China because "diplomatic recognition is a voluntary act," and Communist China "has been consistently and viciously hostile to the U.S." ¶ Opposes the admission of Communist China to the United Nations because it is a "regime which is a convicted aggressor, which . . . continues to promote the use of force in violation of the principles of the United Nations...
...Could there be anything that would be more openly declared lunacy than [to recognize] a nation which at this very moment is a declared aggressor? . . . What a-pitiful hope . . . that if only we should be kind, generous and gentle to Mao Tse-tung, perhaps he will forget his association with Moscow and will embrace our free nations . . . What a mad dream! What a dangerous dream...
...many useful properties. Floating most of the time outside the earth's shadow, it would shorten the earth's night by lighting its dark side. It would bathe cold countries in reflected sunlight, making them productive and habitable. If war should start on the earth below, the "aggressor" (the party not in control of space) could be handily incinerated by making the mirror concave to concentrate its beam...
...Wide Range of Power. Later in the week, Dulles sat before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and carefully moved on with his mission of clarification: "The best way to deter aggression is to make the aggressor know in advance that he will suffer damage outweighing what he can hope to gain . . . The free world must maintain and be prepared to use effective means to make aggression too costly to be tempting . . . The greatest deterrent to war is the ability of the free world to respond by means best suited to the particular area or circumstances." And that ability, said Dulles...