Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with 75,000 men, had begun an invasion of the North after victory at Chancellorsville in May, confident that a decisive victory on Federal soil would cause the disheartened North to sue for peace. Major General George G. Meade, with 88,000 Federals, followed him. The battlefield was chosen inadvertently when a Southern unit, foraging for shoes, ran into Union cavalry scouts at the little eastern Pennsylvania town of Gettysburg. Fighting commenced the next day, July 1, north of the town. That night the Federal troops, driven south through the village streets, dug in on a strong hook-shaped line...
Citation: "A native son of the land of the Reformation, and a 20th century example of what he calls the 'Protestant principle' . . . The product of a Lutheran parsonage, he has served his fellow men on the battlefield, in the pulpit, and in the lecture halls . . . He is at one with the skeptical, the lonely, the empty-hearted contemporary man, and yet he speaks out of the assurance of faith...
...French, who had never had a clearly defined will to victory in Indo-China, were seriously demoralized when the Americans, on a much more favorable battlefield, settled, down to a stalemate and then a truce in Korea. And around that Korean failure lay a still larger setting of weakness: the tendency of the non-Communist world to think of the cold war purely in terms of reaction to enemy action, to "repel aggression...
...week long, France's allies could only watch Georges Bidault's sufferings. They could not help. His desperate pleas for a battlefield truce to save Dienbienphu's wounded met with bland delay from the Communists. Behind him, France's divided government nagged at him. Burly Marc Jacquet, Minister for the Associated States, sent to Geneva to act as a kind of watchdog for the quick-truce faction, told everybody who would listen: "We must get peace!" For two days Bidault had to mark time while the Assembly debated a vote of confidence. "A Foreign Minister does...
There was confusion and there was calculated delay. When the Communists finally agreed to a conference including the three Associated States (Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia) provided the Communist Viet Minh were invited, and agreed to discuss a battlefield truce at the conference, Bidault discovered that no representatives of the three Associated States were on hand (he had not bothered to discuss the situation with them seriously before going to Geneva...