Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Locarno pact then and now is that Locarno was a compact between men of good will-a pact with the democratic Weimar Republic of Germany, not with the Germany of Hitler. A Locarno pact now-with Malenkov and Mao-would be like a pact with Hitler. A promise to defend a wolf if he is attacked by the sheep means little to the wolf. And it just confuses the sheep about the real nature of the wolf...
...search houses and arrest anti-Communists and other "traitors." Many of these barefoot supporters of the Arbenz regime obviously knew as little of Marx as they did of Hart & Schaffner, but many of them had got land under the agrarian program, and they could be counted on to defend it ferociously. Men like that who get weapons in their hands do not turn them back meekly; Guatemala would probably hear of them again...
...Senate, Iowa's Bourke B. Hickenlooper, one of the original members of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy, rose to defend his friend Lewis Strauss, and in so doing disclosed a little news himself about what Strauss found when he took over the AEC chairmanship...
...desert Arbenz and that he in turn will try to form armed militia units among the Communist-controlled unions of laborers and farmers, thereby bringing on a bloody civil war. Tribuna Popular published photographs of strapping farmhands over captions that said they would "take up arms if necessary to defend the fatherland against Yankee monopolists and interventionists." The threatening implication was clear: in a showdown, the pro-Communist regime will depend for survival on guns in the irresponsible hands of its most loyal supporters...
...this point even the parents of Act 888 could not defend it. As public protest and pressure mounted, even some of the men who had sponsored or voted for the bill began to attack it. By this time it was clear that if an effort were made to enforce the Act, Alabama would have no book supply...