Word: aggressors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nation and freedom-loving countries of the world can thank Warren Austin for what remains of the hollow mockery of a weak-kneed "world police force," known to us as the U.N., which cannot clearly define the word "aggressor" for fear of irritating a big bully...
...number of casualties. Mao Tse-tung and other Red Chinese strategists, who like to read the maxims of Sun-tzu, the ancient (500 B.C.) Chinese Clausewitz, now found themselves up against a field strategy similar to the one that had helped bring down Europe's great 19th Century aggressor...
Lippmann made him mad with a piece on the United Nations resolution condemning Communist China as an aggressor in Korea. "The vote,"wrote Lippmann, "is in fact a serious defeat for this country on the main issue. The issue was Asia . . . We see [by the vote] that we have . . . no important supporters in Asia ... It would have been a great deal smarter . . . not to force a showdown...
...maneuvered itself into an odd position on the Korean war. It had got from the United Nations a condemnation of Red China as an aggressor, but this action had a price: the more or less clear commitment from the U.S. that sanctions against Red China would not be requested...
...stay in Korea made good sense if that decision was looked on as part of a plan to punish the Chinese aggressor. The Chinese army could be fought in the north, while Red China's strength was drained by embargo and Nationalist attacks in the south. But to stay in Korea and not try to hurt Red China elsewhere would be just obstinacy, not policy...