Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people that Britain keeps its freedom of decision, that the U.S. cannot commit Britain to war. Again and again, British writers have pointed out that there is no formal bilateral alliance between Britain and the U.S. that would bind Britain to stand at the U.S.'s side in combat. Now it is clear that these statements meant exactly what they said and are not merely fine words to comfort the timid...
World War II: Volunteered for combat duty as an air-force lieutenant (navigator), fled France after the Nazi victory, was caught in Morocco and sentenced by Vichy to six years in prison for "dese-tion," but made a hacksaw-and-bedsheet escape to the underground and then to the De Gaulle forces in England. Made bombing raids over France and Germany...
Neither side had rushed headlong into combat. Both knew that the outcome would almost certainly depend on whether the regular Guatemalan army, some 6,000 strong and not at all Communist, stuck by the government or swung over to the anti-Communist cause. But whether the Guatemalan clash swelled into bitter and prolonged civil bloodshed or petered out in anticlimax and frustration, the issue was nonetheless clearly drawn. Guatemala, in its special way, was a small-scale sequel to Korea and Indo-China. and the world knew it. Even the United Nations Security Council stirred into action; it held...
Once off the road, the army forces might have trouble keeping contact with the rebels. This would be particularly true if the rebels tried to avoid combat and play for time in the hope that throngs of Guatemalans within the country might be won over to them. As a hedge against that, the government passed out guns to some of its Red-led unions of workers and peasants, and sent them to police roads and villages in the interior...
Prompt Response. Adviser Burns was there to answer recent charges by Harvard's Economist Sumner Slichter that the Administration had done too little to combat recession. On the contrary, said Burns, it had done a great deal, notably in loosening credit and cutting taxes. The Federal Reserve Board's first credit-easing step, in May 1953, "was the promptest response to an economic decline ever taken by a central bank in any country...