Word: defenders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...offshore islands out of the defense perimeter. The amendment was beaten down, 74-13 (Jack Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, both absent, were paired: Kennedy for, Johnson against). In April 1955, Dulles told a press conference that "there is no commitment expressed or implied to defend Quemoy and Matsu." The President sent Admiral Arthur Radford, then the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the then Assistant Secretary of State Walter Robertson on a mission to Taipei to discuss Formosan defenses with their old friend Chiang, and, privately, to try to get Chiang to reduce his Quemoy forces. On that...
Seen in such a framework as we have tried to describe, the gigantic political movements of May and June were one more instance of the Japanese people's effort to gain political expression. Those for and against the government both exhibited eagerness to defend "parliamentarianism," but their attitudes were often its very opposite. At that time we hoped that the people had sufficiently grappled with the problem of implementing parliamentary democracy in a society which had lacked a tradition of the logical articulation of ideas. We hoped that amid the confusion and chaos of the period, the principles of parliamentarianism...
Cuba. Nixon disputed Kennedy's claim that Cuba is "lost," defended the Administration's Latin American policy. "There were eleven dictators in South America and in Central America when we came in in 1953; today there are only three left, including the one in Cuba." He accused Kennedy of "defeatist talk," declared flatly that "there isn't any question but that we will defend Guantánamo [the U.S. Navy base in Cuba] if it is attacked." Kennedy's riposte: "We have almost ignored the needs of Latin America; we have beamed not a single Voice...
...subsequent weeks the Menderes regime continued to blame the Greeks for the bomb in Salonica, the Communists for the riots in Istanbul. Koprulu's only part in the affair was to defend the government's action during debates in the National Assembly, though privately he had been critical...
...anti-fascist rallies of the early 40's were, in philosophical implication, far closer to meetings protesting the arms race. In both cases the obvious danger was widespread destruction, the explicit question was war. But a man attending meetings of the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies was ready to fight not abstain; it was clear what the government should do. Horrified by Nazi conquests, he knew that neutrality was an impossible position, that Lend-Lease was essential to prevent Europe from being altogether crushed. In this case, the desire was to lash out at a nation...