Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...information paper" for the guidance of U.S. propaganda efforts and he cited the first paragraph, which read: "To formulate information policy which will minimize damage to United States prestige and others' morale by the possible fall of Formosa to the Chinese Communist forces." Acheson made no attempt to defend what the directive said as the truth: it was just propaganda, and therefore-at least in his interpretation- permissible playing with the truth...
...problem and peril, but the threat of World War III has given the economy a temporary lift. The war, Argentines feel sure, will not be their war; ever since sentiment flared up last summer against sending even token forces to Korea, Perón has proclaimed that Argentines will defend their own black soil, and no more...
...usual, most of the fire was directed at Price Boss Michael V. Di Salle, whose 18% rollbacks of livestock prices start going into effect next week. On short notice, Di Salle was hauled before the House Agriculture Committee to defend his order. Who, asked Cattle Congressman W. R. Poage of Waco, Texas, will bear the brunt of the rollbacks? Won't it be the ranchers? And what immediate relief, asked another representative, can consumers expect? For hours Mike Di Salle took it on the chin, supplied generalities rather than facts & figures. Finally, he stepped wearily down with the comment...
...basic concept . . . would be that Formosa should not be allowed to fall into Red hands ... I believe if it does, that you have not only lost every thing we gained in the Pacific war, but you have rolled our strategic frontier back from the little island groups that defend us now, all the way to the western coast...
...General MacArthur was decisive in all his answers. But Connecticut's Democrat Brien McMahon reminded him that he had said the problem was global in nature. "If we go into all-out war," said McMahon, "I want to find out how you propose in your own mind to defend the American nation against that war?" Said MacArthur: "That doesn't happen to be my responsibility, Senator. My responsibilities were in the Pacific." Global solutions were the J.C.S.'s business, he declared. Did he know the number of atomic bombs the U.S. had? That Russia...