Word: defendable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sometimes obscured by the smoke of the oratory. The whole U.S. was agreed "on the basic ends we seek, namely, to protect our country from Communist aggression . . . The differences are merely on means and methods . . . When, at what points, how, and with whom should we prepare to defend ourselves...
...About Europe? Point by point, Douglas met the Hoover-Taft thesis. Sea and air power are not enough to defend Europe, he declared. "The experience of World War II and the experience of Korea have surely taught us that air attacks will not stop land armies . . . Infantry and artillery are still needed, as Korea has shown, and all the scientific push buttons and military gadgets have not made them obsolete...
...councils of the executive Government and a number of able publicists." This school, he said, would let the shark gobble Asia and, with it, the Middle East and Africa. "They are resigned to this because they believe that we and Western Europe do not have the strength to defend both Asia and Western Europe . . . For Western Europe, it is said, is the vital seat of power and the only permanent head for the Russian serpent, which has its coils in so many satellite states of Europe and Asia...
...Oslo, Ike's plane circled snowbound Gardermoen airfield for 15 minutes, then slid in. Ike climbed into a Norwegian admiral's Cadillac for the 36-mile drive to the capital. He learned that Norway would need all her 22,000-man force, plus her reservists, to defend her long, exposed coastline and her boundary with Russia. Norway's 4,000-man brigade in Germany will be turned over to Ike's command, and the government plans to raise the draft period from nine to twelve months. During luncheon next day, Defense Minister Jens Hauge pushed...
...countries) created a magnificent situation of strength. The passivists stood back and admired it, a monument of American generosity, and made no effective political use of it. U.S. policy in France has failed and is still failing to get what the U.S. wants - a France that can and will defend itself. A weak-kneed French government is the obstacle. Weak-kneed U.S. policy actually supports that government...