Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...accept this brushoff without protest. Hayes wrote each member of the subcommittee, noting that the Army has suspended her from her job. The Washington Daily News took up her case. While McCarthy was in Florida two weeks ago, the subcommittee agreed to give her the chance to defend herself...
Vice President Richard Nixon had a tough and unwanted assignment: he had to defend the Administration and the President against Adlai Stevenson's criticism, and, in passing, he had to reprove Joe McCarthy and take account of McCarthy's gutter tactics. Nixon handled the assignment with dignity and dispatch. He and the President had agreed in advance, he said, "that this issue is too important to answer in kind with a rip-roaring political tirade before a cheering partisan audience...
Foreign Minister Paul van Zeeland put his case before the Belgian Senate wearily but succinctly. "Can we remain isolated? No. Can we defend ourselves? No. Is NATO enough? No." What Western Europe needs, he said, is the European Army (EDC), with its projected twelve German divisions...
...cause. "But if the Gimo will press for these needed reforms . . ." said he, "the Chinese people will gladly back the Nationalist government. If he does not do so, not only our hope of ever recovering the mainland of China is lost, but he may find himself even unable to defend effectively Formosa in the not too distant future...
...build on the Grand Canal." Letter writers to the London Times denounced the Wright invasion as "a piece of inexcusable vandalism." Mrs. Marie Truxtun Beale, a wealthy U.S. socialite, who helped raise more than $125,000 for repairs to St. Mark's Basilica, wrote Venetian Mayor Angelo Spanio: "Defend you city. If you allow this, I will regret having done anything...