Word: aggressors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...initiative in many parts of the world . . . It's very dangerous to talk about liberation because liberation in the minds of Europeans means war, and I can assure you that the word "liberation" terrifies the people who are under Communist propaganda that we are going to be the aggressor. We don't want to be the aggressor . . . When the time comes, when we are strong enough, then I believe there will be a beginning of the weakening behind the Iron Curtain...
...reported Editor Moraes, the bloodstream of China has been seriously infected with the propaganda germs spread daily from Peking: "America is Public Enemy No. 1. From billboards and posters, through the press, film and radio, in incessant speeches and slogans, the U.S. is reviled as an imperialist and an aggressor. Even the mild-mannered Madame Sun Yat-sen chuckled with glee when drawing our attention to a cartoon depicting Dean Acheson . . . as a 'bacterial bug.'" Moraes noted that Chinese who speak English with an American accent are nervous about where they got their education; he met one Columbia...
...disaster. "Far from slowing down, our security requires that we step up our defenses both in speed and scale . . . The whole defense program should be reviewed to determine whether too heavy an emphasis has not been placed on building new facilities and too little on turning out weapons . . . No aggressor was ever stopped by blueprints...
...believe that war will not happen if we can create in areas of political tension sufficient strength so that it will be absolutely clear in advance that any attack will run into difficulty. The strength of the free world must be organized in such a way that the aggressor would, at the outset, still be engaged in trouble at the point of attack when the full force of retaliation falls upon him. We believe, from the politico-military point of view, that this awareness on their part is the best way of preserving the security of our country...
Deterrent Influence. "If a potential aggressor knew in advance that his aggression would bring that answer, then I am convinced that he would not commit aggression . . . Siberia and much of China, notably Manchuria, are vulnerable, from the standpoint of transport and communication . . . Is it not time that the Chinese Communists knew that if, for example, they send their Red armies openly into Viet Nam [Indo-China], we will not be content merely to try to meet their armed forces at the point they select . . . but by retaliatory action of our own fashioning...