Word: defenders
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...attack upon our own." In Frankfurt's historic Paulskirche (St. Paul's Church), he expanded on the theme: "The first task of the Atlantic Community was to assure its common defense. That defense was and still is indivisible. The U.S. will risk its cities to defend yours because we need your freedom to protect ours. Hundreds of thousands of our soldiers serve with yours on this continent as tangible evidence of this pledge." Emphasizing the need to create "a fully cohesive Europe," he said that "the future of the West lies in Atlantic partnership-a system of cooperation...
...other major thrust, Kennedy took dead aim at France's Charles de Gaulle, whose lofty vision of a future Europe not only excludes U.S. influence but presupposes that the U.S. would not make good its promises to help defend the Continent: "Those who would doubt our pledge, those who would separate Europe from America or split one ally from another, would only give aid and comfort to the men who make themselves our adversaries and welcome any Western disarray. It is not in our interest to try to dominate European councils of decision. . . I repeat again, so that there...
...drawn to De Gaulle's point of view, that risk was worth taking. The immediate French reaction was a shrug, with a hint of a sniff. France's Minister of Information Alain Peyrefitte said that his government does not really distrust Kennedy's resolution to defend Europe. But, he said, France does have a right to question Kennedy's ability to impose his policies on his presidential successors. "France," he said, "would have wished in 1914 to have the United States at her side, as also in 1939, when war broke...
...Charles de Gaulle knows it. And he could not help realizing that Kennedy, in his clear restatement of U.S. ambitions for a strong, independent Europe and of unwavering U.S. determination to defend European integrity by arms if necessary, reached the heart of Western Europeans...
...wasting war of occupation. Hannibal's army lives off the Italian countryside for decades at a stretch, until the danger from the war is as familiar a part of peasant life as drought or plague. The Italian villagers are loyal to Rome when the legions can defend them, comfortably acquiescent when the Carthaginians ride into town and offer better prices. To the fearful peasantry, Hannibal's few armored elephants loom dreadfully, like the roaming German Tiger Tanks of World...