Word: defendable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Indo-China's young intellectuals off their ideological fence. De Lattre's ringing challenge to them: "Be men. Pick your sides. If your sympathies are with the Viet Minh go into the mountains and join them. If they are not, then join the new Vietnamese army and defend yourselves...
...pride. Oddly enough, Neo-Nazi Ernst Remer (TIME, May 21) has also been helpful. A German veteran explained how: "When that scum Remer started lambasting rearmament, we soldiers figured rearmament must be the right thing." Two other factors: rising prosperity gives the Germans a feeling they have something to defend; and Allied successes in Korea suggest that joining the West is not joining the hopeless side...
What is needed is a whopping gesture, something on the order of the proposed Japanese treaty, saying in effect: "O.K., boys. The war is over and we are ready to be friends again, pledged to defend each other." German leaders are not going to rearm a "second-class people," and Germans are not going to fight as "second-class soldiers." The French give the impression that they still want to avoid both a German army and German equality. Britain, while rigorously rearming at home, has gone slow on Germany, apparently in deference to its anti-U.S. left-wing Socialist...
...thin, straw-hatted upperclassman, with a reputation for athletics and authorship. This year, Feisal wrote a judo manual in Arabic for the use of the Iraqi army, presented the first copy to his great uncle King Abdullah of Jordan, who was assassinated last week. Its title: How to Defend Yourself...
Dean William R. Dennes of the University of California Graduate School denied that there was any philosophical way to knowledge other than science and common sense and felt that no advance in philosophy could lead to any means to defend value judgments by argument. Since values are "acts of love," he held that any attempt to establish philosophical rules for art would be indefensible. Sible...