Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Proclaimed Exclusions. After Dean Acheson, in a speech to Washington's National Press Club in January 1950, excluded Korea from the area that the U.S. intended to defend, the Communists attacked there. That hard lesson taught the U.S. how dangerous it was to exclude any part of the free world from a publicly proclaimed defense perimeter. The Eisenhower policy is to be very cautious with commitments about where the U.S. will send troops-and much more cautious about commitments of where it will not send troops...
...argument in one of the cars provides diversion for those sitting nearby. One of the debaters is a critic of the University, carping about the Corporation's stand on ex-Communists on the faculty. His opponent is William Bentinck-Smith who, in varying capacities, has had ample opportunities to defend Harvard...
Theologian Barth has consistently urged that Christians in Communist countries come to terms with the new regimes. The churches should accept restrictions on them as "penance," protesting only when some really flagrant state violation of their rights as Christians occurs. As for ideology: "The Church can never defend and proclaim-or even attack-abstract norms, ideals, historical laws and sociopolitical ideologies as such ... It cannot make itself responsible either for any ism or for rejecting...
...Eden resigned from the Foreign Office in protest against Neville Chamberlain's policies of appeasement, and was replaced by Lord Halifax. Chamberlain picked Butler as Under Secretary. With the Foreign Secretary in the House of Lords, if was often Butler's job to defend policy in the Commons. While Churchill cried havoc from the back benches, Butler loyally defended Munich and Mussolini's Italy in his maddeningly tranquil voice, became famed for his equivocal replies to awkward questions. The exasperated and jittery Commons nicknamed him "Stonewall Butler," and Lloyd George called him "the artful dodger...
Segal, elaborating on the effect of the Taft-Hartley Act on labor, said that the act dramatized the need for the unions to defend collective bargaining through political means...