Word: aggressors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Speech. The U.S., he said, is the historical foe of China: "The American imperialists have always been the cunning aggressor . . . never . . . the friends of the Chinese people . . . The Open Door was in fact an aggressive policy aimed at sharing the spoils with other imperialists...
...Chiang slowly moved toward Mao's hideout, Stalin moved to Mao's rescue. The new Comintern slogan was "united front" against the mounting fascist threat of Japan. It was successful. Chiang's campaign against the Communists was deflected and dissipated into resistance against a more powerful aggressor. The Chinese Red army was saved. It proceeded to expand spectacularly. During the eight years of the Japanese war, following Mao's directive "90% against the Kuomintang, 10% against the Japanese," it grew from 25,000 to 910,000 men, claimed control of 50 million people...
...fallacy of the buffer state was the fallacy of any settlement arrived at by agreement with the Communists; the agreement was good only as long as it suited an aggressor to keep it. In the Sudetenland and at Munich, the world had had just such a lesson...
...Gladwyn Jebb proposed that the U.N. Security Council invite Mao Tse-tung's government to send representatives to the forthcoming U.N. discussion of General MacArthur's report on Chinese intervention in Korea (TIME, Nov. 13). U.S. Delegate Warren Austin argued that since Communist China was the aggressor the invitation should be called a "summons." Snapped Russia's Jacob Malik: "When a colonial power speaks to a colonial slave it may 'summon' . . . him, but in the present case the term should be 'to invite...
...Russia should choose to attack Yugoslavia, or China to attack Nepal, or Bulgaria to attack Greece, such attacks could and would be surrounded by a barrage of notes and broadcasts showing that the victim was the aggressor and the aggressor the victim...