Word: continente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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A Wambling Stomach. Nearly a full year before the shot heard round the world, Lee was buzzing America's mission in the colonists' ears. "The generous and liberal of all nations turn their eyes to this continent as the last asylum of liberty . . ." Titles, he said, made him...
On the other hand, if by subversion or aggression Communism should reach the Channel ports, a global war would seem inevitable unless the United States were prepared to bow before the might of the whole Eurasian continent under Soviet rule.
MACARTHUR: "I do not believe that it would be within the capacity of the Soviet to mass any great additional increment of force to launch any predatory attack from the Asiatic continent ... All of the sustenance that goes in in such major quantity to support armed forces must pass over...
Supposing that we were eventually able by force to destroy the present power of the Chinese Communist regime, what would take its place? I doubt if anyone but Chiang Kai-shek believes that he could form a government to take over and administer again the four hundred millions of the...
Truman: No. "We would be running a very grave risk of starting a general war ... We would become entangled in a vast conflict on the Continent of Asia."