Word: defenselessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communist threats underlined the choice facing the Brussels conference: it could either back down and leave Europe defenseless, or it could act swiftly before the Communists translated threats into action. The conference seemed determined to act. At the end of the first day, the conferees announced plans to form a 1,000,000-man force by the end of 1953, including 55 to 60 divisions under Supreme Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower (formally appointed this week...
...telegram said there was no choice but to "break out of the Kremlin trap designed to pin us down in Asia, leaving Europe and the Middle East Defenseless...
...least the royalty checks from my publishers do not indicate that I am. My books are seriously discussed by our American deep-sea thinkers but they are not bought by the man in the street . . . Make the publishers give you one if you can. Don't tackle the defenseless writer . . . I'll be hanged before I'll give any institution a copy of a book I write...
There were some brutal facts to make clear. "Defense" was a misnomer. If an atomic bomb ever exploded above a U.S. city, thousands would die despite all the efforts of such men as Clay and his staff. Cities are pretty much defenseless and their populations are naked under the enemy. No one would be safe, yet many could be saved. Thinking of the worst, even while the "worst" itself could not be measured, Clay and his staff prepared to do what they could, basing their plans on a horrendous hypothesis...
Western Europe has not the shadow of a ghost of a chance to defend itself without U.S. help. And the U.S. has no reason to consider as an asset a Europe which stays at or near its present defenseless state. These two facts, considered coolly, mean that the U.S. has only two practical courses: 1) demand a maximum effort toward rearmament by European nations, or 2) pull out of Europe militarily and economically rather than waste men and materials on a hopeless proposition...