Word: bespoken
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...action in Vietnam today is justified precisely on the grounds of legal and moral principles for which a universal validity is bespoken. What we are fighting in Vietnam is, we are told, a reprehensible mode of behavior known as "aggression," contrasting with something else, which we are defending, known as "freedom." We would presumably be morally obliged to oppose "aggression" by force of arms wherever it raised its ugly head. The specifics of the situation, geographic, political or otherwise, are irrelevant. This commits us to action on the Asiastic mainland as much as in any other part of the globe...