Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Would the U.S. meet that challenge? Chiang thought he had had a pledge that the U.S. would defend Quemoy and the Matsus. But last week Secretary of State Dulles reiterated, as he has been doing lately, that "there has been no commitment, of any kind, sort or description, expressed or implied," to defend anything but Formosa and the Pescadores. "We have the jitters," admits one high Nationalist...
...like a "scandal" to Robert Cardinal Bellarmine, then the church's chief theologian. The rebuke which Galileo received at the hands of Bellarmine's Holy Office in 1616 (year of the deaths of Shakespeare and Cervantes) was mild. In sum, he was ordered not to "hold or defend" the proposition that the earth revolved around the sun. Galileo did not interpret this as a gag order, and over the next eight years cautiously busied himself, in letters and pamphlets, with thinly disguised proselytizing for the Copernican view...
...efforts to reach a peaceful settlement of the crisis fail and the Chinese Communists attack territory which the United States has pledged to defend, then this country obviously must meet the challenge with military force. But massive atomic retaliation against Chinese cities, in response to a Chinese attack with conventional arms would be unthinkable. It probably would be unthinkable. It probably would be militarily ineffective in itself, since China's urban industrial base is still largely undeveloped. More than that however, such a response to a Communist attack would do serious harm to the American position in the world...
...that the uncertainty about U.S. intentions was a lesser evil than the havoc an announcement would create in both strategy and politics. If the President announced his decision, the Communists would have a definite line behind which they would have sanctuary. If the President said that the U.S. will defend the islands, he would immediately be denounced as a warmonger; if he announced the opposite, he would be called an appeaser...
...disagreed with his Navy chief, the President cautioned that the U.S. should follow a policy of "strong patience," should not be in the position of saying, "They are going to attack me today; therefore, I attack them yesterday." Did he think that the U.S. could fulfill its commitment to defend Formosa if Quemoy and Matsu were lost? In his answer, General Eisenhower showed that he is giving serious consideration to the argument that loss of the off-shore islands would have a serious effect on anti-Communist morale in Asia. Said he: "[Morale] is a factor that you must always...