Word: counterattacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite this new counterattack, John Bricker was having no part of the compromise proposal. Nor were the Democrats, at the moment; they were too busy enjoying the fun. The chance for a stalemate, therefore, increased, i.e., after bitter debate, the Bricker amendment would be sent back to committee for "further study," and would emerge from time to time to cause more bloodshed. This was exactly what the Administration did not want. To avoid it, Eisenhower was considering the ultimate step: a TV appeal to the nation...
...North ern Army Group: General Sir Gerald Templer, 55, able, hard-boiled British professional who in two years of jungle fighting has mastered the Communist threat to rubber-rich Malaya. Austere and dedicated, Sandhurstman Templer found Malaya in despair, with the Red guerrillas everywhere pressing harder; his counterattack matched their ferocity, in two years reduced the average monthly toll of murders and other "incidents" from...
...renewed attack. Second, the United Nations forces have promised that a breach of the Korean armistice "would be so grave that, in all probability, it would not be possible to confine hostilities within the frontiers of Korea." Added General Ike, in a thinly veiled promise of an atomic counterattack: "Our growing national air power possesses greater mobility and greater striking force than ever before . . . The U.S. military forces in the Far East will be maintained at appropriate levels ... to fulfill the commitments which the U.S. has undertaken in that area...
Dulles drafted his counterattack and took it to the President, who gave it his enthusiastic endorsement. At his press conference, Dulles lashed out: "We do not propose to throw away those precious assets [of mutual respect and friendship] by blustering and domineering methods." Other free nations, he said, will be treated "as sovereign equals" and not as "our satellites." To dramatize the point to McCarthy's Wisconsin constituents. Dulles warned that Milwaukee and other cities "would be sitting ducks for atomic bombs" without early-warning radar "facilities in the friendly countries which are nearer the Soviet Union...
...equipped. Though they sometimes fought gallantly, the green Filipino troops all too often panicked and ran. Nonetheless, all troops fought well enough to bring the Japanese to a dead stop on Bataan in the last week of February 1942. One high-ranking Japanese officer later admitted that a U.S. counterattack could have pushed through the Japanese lines and retaken Manila...