Word: defenders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...guard these precious liberties. The students and faculty of Berkeley [Dec. 18] are doing just this and deserve the admiration and support of every American who believes in democracy and the freedoms it guarantees. If it is the "Trotsky groups" and "members of the Communist front" who protect and defend these aspects of our heritage, I would clearly have to desert the Republican Party and register as a Communist...
Lorelei Umbrella. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara started off in NATO's huge conference room, nicknamed the Cathedral, by once again trying to answer the basic Gaullist suspicion that the U.S. might not defend Europe. In case of an all-out war, said McNamara, the alternative of "Europe or the U.S." did not exist in Washington planning. In nuclear terms, an attack on Western Europe would be an attack on the U.S. As proof, McNamara pointed out that the U.S. has placed in NATO more than 800 ICBMs, more than 300 Polaris missiles and hundreds of bombers. The aggregate yield...
...Original NATO. Created in the wake of Communist coups in Eastern Europe and the Berlin blockade in 1949, NATO was originally designed to defend Western Europe against a Soviet invasion. With a joint-command structure headed by a U.S. general, NATO was to have some 50 divisions assigned to it fulltime. Today it has only 26, ten of them German, even though nearly all the national armies and navies of Western Europe are "earmarked" for NATO's use in case of war. At the time of NATO's founding, the U.S. was the only effective nuclear power...
...sought possible countermoves to Russian aggression in Europe other than nuclear Armageddon, Washington kept pressing for more conventional forces and began talking about a "graduated response." De Gaulle cited this as proof that the U.S. would not defend Europe unless the U.S. itself was attacked. So France pushed ahead with its own little atomic program-after all, argued De Gaulle jealously, Britain had its nuclear force...
...sense, the question comes down to a matter of trust. Many Europeans simply do not wholly trust the U.S. to defend them under all foreseeable circumstances, particularly a decade or two hence, when it may be disastrously involved in Latin America, Asia or Africa. And De Gaulle argues that the U.S. has always been "late" in entering European wars; yet the U.S. can reply with equal distrust that virtually since Waterloo, France has been gravely wanting as a resolute military power. The U.S. must look to a France after De Gaulle, with a large Communist vote and the political chaos...