Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...take these steps immediately: 1) remove the troops from Korea and send them to Japan-they are going to be needed for the greater struggle; 2) prevent any landings of Chinese Reds on Formosa; 3) arm Japan; 4) mobilize America now-immediately; 5) prepare with the utmost haste to defend Europe...
Taft agreed that a U.S. land army of "reasonable size" (about 1,500,000 men) would be necessary-to repel any invasion of the American continent, to defend a global string of U.S. and allied sea and air bases, and perhaps to fight occasional minor actions in selected areas where there was a clear opportunity for victory. At some later date, if Europe's defense appeared to have "a reasonable chance of success," he would be willing to send "some limited number of American divisions" to help. Until then, and as a basic principle, the nation's allies...
...Consider giving aid to Franco Spain and perhaps provide some land troops, sea and air forces to defend the Malay Peninsula, the Suez Canal and North Africa...
...stockpile grew. And there was not much in law to support the argument that the President had "usurped authority" to send troops to Korea and to commit them to Europe. History books listed more than 130 cases where U.S. Presidents sent U.S. troops into armed action to defend the national interest...
Speaking with a resoluteness and a crisp delivery he had seldom shown before, Harry Truman laid down the course for meeting the Soviet peril "wisely . . . bravely . . . honorably," as he saw it: economic assistance "where it can be effective," military assistance "to countries which want to defend themselves," full support of U.S. obligations under the Atlantic Treaty. Said the President: "Strategically, economically and morally, the defense of Europe is part of our own defense...