Word: aggressors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bomb 5,500 miles from Point A to Point B in 20 minutes before the Russians find out how, and to produce the hardware that can do it. "The mission is to maintain the peace." he says. "The ballistic missile will improve our deterrent capability. This will make any aggressor think twice...
...Never Despaired." From that moment on, Israel and its impassioned lawgiver have defied the whole world. Condemned as an aggressor for the Sinai attack, Israel flouted six successive U.N. Assembly orders to get out of Egypt. Israel defied President Eisenhower's publicly pronounced warnings of "pressure" and the U.N. Assembly's well-publicized moves for "military, economic or financial" sanctions. Israel balked at the U.S. President's insistence that no nation invading another in the face of U.N. disapproval should set conditions for its withdrawal. Unlike its fellow preventive warriors, Britain and France, who completed their unconditional...
...Eden said nothing to the U.S. In Washington, knowing only of the Israeli mobilization, Eisenhower announced that the U.S. would "honor our pledge" under the Tripartite Agreement of 1950, which pledged the U.S. to act in concert with Britain and France "within and outside the United Nations" against an aggressor in the Middle East. Only last February, Eden had come to Washington to press for a firm U.S. commitment to back that agreement...
...Talk less and act more! Press in the UN for for a resolution branding the Soviet Union an aggressor in Hungary. Let us have done with talk of "moral force." The history of the Soviet Union can give us no comfort on the sensitivity of her leaders to "moral force" or "world public opinion," whatever that...
...warning him against any "forceful initiative . . . which would endanger the peace." The Administration kept congressional leaders informed of the fast-racing developments. Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson reminded a national TV audience that the U.S. was committed (by the 1950 tripartite pact with Britain and France) to fight any aggressor in the Middle East "if it is real aggression," but that the U.S. purpose was to "try to talk everybody into being reasonable." The State Department warned U.S. citizens to get out of the Middle East if they had no compelling reasons for staying-"without delay...