Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will rise steadily as jet B-47s begin to replace the old piston-powered B-29s and B-50s. Defensively, the U.S. today probably has sufficient air defense to cut down a concentrated attack on the U.S. Strategic Air Command bases and atomic installations. But it cannot now defend the nation against raids on U.S. cities. The best estimate today, based on the sketchiest intelligence, is that the Russians have not a sufficient supply of atomic bombs to make a sustained atomic offensive against the U.S. and destroy its industrial potential. But even the most hopeful reader of such reports...
...have found an idealistic but impulsive leader in Adolf ("Sailor") Malan, a cousin of the Prime Minister's and an ex-R.A.F. group captain in the Battle of Britain. Sailor Malan has organized 175,000 World War II veterans in his Torch Commando, which is pledged to defend the constitution-if necessary, by force. Said he last week: "I make this last-minute appeal to Prime Minister Malan to turn away from this dangerous path before it is too late...
...Kameny was not pressured to become a member of the ROTC, nor has the Department of Military Science and Tactics encroached upon his freedom in any way, but yet he chooses to make an extremely bitter attack upon the personnel who are training to defend their country and the dignity of all Americans. It is the practice of the Communist Party in this country today to knock the military profession as much as possible, and it is also the great joy of pseudo-liberals to do likewise. I do not infer that Mr. Kameny is either of these...
This doesn't mean that we advocate that people who have something to say should yank unwilling students out of bed and force them into captive audience as you imply these men did last week. However, we do defend the right of such visitors to knock on our doors and cordially invite us to hear what they have to say. As the occupants of the room in Eliot House where one of these meetings was held, we should like to reassure any of your readers who may have been alarmed by your remarks that we could not detect the least...
Germans, who are being asked to raise an army of twelve divisions for Western Europe's defense, would no longer have to pay for their conquerors' comfort. Said a U.S. State Department official: "It is a question of Army maids or German soldiers to help defend the West...