Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...results in passages that are magnificent in their display of conceit and paranoia. For example, describing his flight from the Communist Party in 1938, he writes, "I therefore decided to try first of all to smash the secret apparatus by myself." His fear of the violence the Party would commit against his person for his desertion not only led him to write at night with a pistol by his hand but ultimately allowed him to write in Witness: "We traveled lightly and I drove as fast as possible. I knew that the Party had undergrounds in the South. I knew...
...week from Defense Secretary Robert A. Lovett. Angrily denouncing the Reds' "abominable, malicious falsehood" that the U.S. is using disease germs and poison gas in Korea and China, Lovett said: "The Communist techniques . . . have usually been to charge someone else in advance with the crime they propose to commit." Then he added: If he Reds try bacteriological or poison-gas war, they will "open up a vast area which the decent world has abstained from using, [and] if they do, they'll lose just the same-they'll just wish they had never been born...
Mark Gibson '52, Chairman of Adams House, reported last night that "he (Bender) was very appreciative of the report," and that "it was good to get the recommendation before him" despite Bender's unwillingness to commit himself...
Deterrent Influence. "If a potential aggressor knew in advance that his aggression would bring that answer, then I am convinced that he would not commit aggression . . . Siberia and much of China, notably Manchuria, are vulnerable, from the standpoint of transport and communication . . . Is it not time that the Chinese Communists knew that if, for example, they send their Red armies openly into Viet Nam [Indo-China], we will not be content merely to try to meet their armed forces at the point they select . . . but by retaliatory action of our own fashioning...
...Utah Democrats named an uninstructed slate of 20 delegates (with twelve convention votes), none of whom would commit himself...