Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Acheson was obviously pleased with the way he had phrased his answer, and he gave reporters permission to quote it direct. But it was just the kind of toplofty response that his critics found hard to take and his friends found hard to defend. It did nothing to stop the rumors. Dean Acheson owed his job to just one man, Harry Truman, who has said he considers him one of the "great Secretaries of State." The President was apt to stick by him the more he was attacked. Acheson's peril, however, lay not so much with critics...
What were some of those things? "The thing about Europe is, can you defend it? If Russia has the atomic bomb, can't they knock the devil out of Europe? I don't know. We have to help Europe-the question is how much? Is that our main purpose? Should we make plans for defeating Russia on the European continent, or should we depend on air power? I've been primarily an air man, but I don't think we should put all our eggs in one basket. I don't know. It ought...
Even if their only objectives were to defend a buffer zone south of the Yalu, and pin down the U.S. divisions.to a harsh winter war of attrition, the highly audible wails of dismay from the U.S.-from the public, which had expected the Korean war to be ended by now, and from statesmen who wanted to dispatch U.S. divisions to Europe-must have been music to Red ears...
...Cannon. His slingshot now grown into a big gun, David will pound the Communists daily over the government radio. He has a staff of researchers who cull the Communist press, mail lies and distortions they uncover to every non-Communist editor in France through their bulletin Defend the Truth...
...defend him before a special tribunal, Dr. Seagrave had a powerful battery of legal talent, all serving without fee. His attorney was U Kyaw Myint, probably the best Burmese lawyer. Also at the defense table was able Briton Peter M. Beechenor, a Chinese barrister from Kyaw Myint's office, and an Indian lawyer named Venkataram...