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Governor James F. Byrnes: "No man knows what the Kremlin will do. But I know that the Soviet leaders understand only the language of force. A firm stand by a united people may deter them from war. A timid course by a divided people will certainly encourage them to make...
These considerations may or may not deter the Communists-regrouped North Koreans as well as Chinese-from venturing very far below the 38th parallel. If they do stop, South Korea may be spared the horrors of another Red occupation and some-though not all-of U.S. and U.N. prestige lost in recent weeks may be restored...
Federal Judge James P. McGranery rejected the U.S. Attorney General's recommendation, and meted out the heaviest prison sentence possible under the espionage law-30 years. He did it, the judge said, "to deter others in the future," and pointed out that under the law, he might have sentenced Gold to death...
...race had to the re-routed because of water-soaked ground on the souther end of Dillon Field. But these conditions did not deter Dave Smith of Winthrop from limping through the course with an injured...
With the new Defense Production Act passed, signed and in his hands, President Truman summoned the country last week to "build up the strength ... to deter Communist aggression." He spoke over radio and TV in the middle of the nation's Saturday-night-out. Few people were much aroused from their weekend calm; the people had heard most of what he had to say before. Defense costs were going up & up; they would be $30 billion annually by next June, more in the years to follow. There would be less to spend for peacetime purposes. The home-front problem...