Word: defenders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nuclear barons and infantry serfs." The counter idea of a multi-nation NATO nuclear force with at least three powers holding keys-U.S., Britain and France-seemed not to interest France much. De Gaulle knows full well that in the end the U.S. has no choice but to defend France against Soviet attack. That axiomatic umbrella of protection gives De Gaulle vast flexibility for action-and for troublemaking. The U.S. would also have to cease treating De Gaulle as a junior partner in the alliance. "It is intolerable for a great state," De Gaulle said not long ago. "that...
...merely one of the essential prerequisites." As a matter of fact, declared der Alte, De Gaulle "promised me that the first subject of joint consultation after the treaty goes into effect will be British entry" into the Common Market. As for the Atlantic alliance, "Europe knows that it cannot defend itself without the support of the United States. I underline again our repeatedly expressed intention of organizing our defense in the framework of NATO...
...North African exiles for the independence of Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco. But he was disgusted by the terms on which freedom was won; he claimed they were too favorable to France. His Francophobia deepened with the years, and in 1957 he warned the U.S. against relying on France to defend Europe, adding querulously: "I don't know why the world doesn't catch on to those French-they're stupid, weak, stubborn and selfish." After Morocco won its independence. King Mohammed V tried to placate the old exile and persuade him to return home. He sent...
Colleges all over the country are now redefining themselves in ingenious ways to meet the new circumstances. Their problem in essence is to defend humanities and arts from the space-age trend toward scientific specialization-"the new barbarism," as Columbia College's Dean David B. Truman calls it. Says he: "The specialist who is trained but uneducated, technically skilled but culturally incompetent, is a menace...
...aircraft carrier, and its jet fighters might have been enough, even that late, to reverse the outcome-but they remained on the sidelines. The invaders' appeals for help-"Mad Dog Four, May Day, Red Beach" -went unheeded. According to the official version, the U.S. Navy was there to defend the invasion ships in case they were discovered and attacked in international waters-it was not supposed to aid the landing...