Word: conquest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Carter Vincent, the State Department careerist who played a key role in the U.S.'s disastrous China policy, had two aspects: Was Vincent a Communist? Whether he was or wasn't, did he make serious misjudgments damaging to the U.S. national interest and helpful to the Red conquest of China...
...Forecast the conquest of the world by Russian insects...
...famed British constitutional scholar, Walter Bagehot, Queen Elizabeth II "could disband the army; she could dismiss all the officers . . .she could sell off all our ships-of-war and all our naval stores; she could make a peace by the sacrifice of Cornwall and begin a war for the conquest of Brittany. She could make every citizen in the United Kingdom, male or female, a peer; she could make every parish in the United Kingdom a 'University'; she could dismiss most of the civil servants, and she could pardon all offenders...
...greatly helped by the Churchill mission, has reached with its U.N. partners in the Korean war an agreement in principle that may be a solution to the Communists' campaign of conquest in Asia. Its gist: if the Communists, after settling for a truce in Korea, begin a new aggression, the U.N. should try to punish Red China by some means more effective than merely picking up the Korean war where it was left off. The plan is to put the decision in the form of a warning, or ultimatum, to be proclaimed through the U.N. when & if a Korean...
...speech blasted "the mad dogs of reaction" who, he said, are seeking to create a "police state" in America. The government is pursuing this policy because it is attempting a war of conquest and can not afford to have its strategy criticized, Kutcher declared...