Word: attacke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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George Marshall went on to the attack. The $6.8 billion was not just an "asking figure," purposely padded in anticipation of congressional cutting. Clenching his fist, he demanded that Congress provide this "adequate" amount or reject his entire proposal. Said he: "An inadequate program would involve a wastage of our resources with an ineffective result. . . . Either undertake to meet the requirements of the problem or don't undertake...
Phase II would come when the enemy was prepared. When would that be? "The conclusions of the Commission ... fix as the target date by which we should have an air arm capable of dealing with a possible atomic attack on this country at Jan. i, 1953. For convenience we will refer to this date...
Rightly or wrongly, the commissioners assumed that the attack would be directly on democracy's great arsenal, the U.S.; that it would come without warning; that the U.S. would not be able to turn aside its first full violence (which might well be accompanied by sabotage with atomic and biological weapons); that the enemy's objective would be the destruction of U.S. capacity to resist. The only defense was a counteroffense of such speed and power that the enemy would be paralyzed. Security lay in keeping "a force in being in peacetime greater than any self-governing people...
...Navy's notion is that the retaliatory attack could best be spearheaded by aircraft carrier groups (which the Navy describes as floating airbases), capable of moving anywhere in the world and closing with the enemy. For that mission the Navy set its sights on acquiring four carrier groups and a total air strength of 14,500 planes...
Until the appearance of "Crossfire" a few months age, Hollywood carefully avoided the subject of anti-semitism. "Crossfire" was a story of violence and hate that was hardly close to the experience of most movie audiences. "Gentleman's Agreement," the second outspoken attack on anti-semitism, shows the thing in almost every one of its usual forms: The hero, who for a few months pretends to be a Jew, discovers it in his finance as well as in a hotel manager, and in Jews themselves as well as in Christians...