Word: deterring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Neither "wishful thinking about world events," nor "doubts about the country's economic capacity" should deter the Joint Chiefs of Staffs' enlargement plans, they said...
...Europe, U.S. arms aid should, in the long run, be sufficient to build up adequate European armies. These armies, plus the North Atlantic Treaty's promise of instant U.S. retaliation, should be enough to deter the Russians unless they are bent on all-out war. (Taft's proof: U.S. air power and its atomic bombs have deterred Russia up to now.) Ike Eisenhower has succeeded "by the force of his personality ... in persuading the European nations of the tremendous importance of arming themselves in a joint defense." But the Administration's decision to "build up a great...
...except a pacifist or partisan of the Kremlin," explains Bevan, "would argue that military strength is not needed to deter the rulers of Soviet Russia." But rearmament is proceeding too rapidly and may spoil the chances of a peaceful settlement. "In 1953 . . . the Americans will possess a dominance in armed strength . . . greater than that which was ever possessed by any other country in peacetime. It is not unknown for a giant to wish to use his strength, even though he is not attacked." Few Britons, except the editors of the Daily Worker and Bevan's followers, had anything good...
...distance involved in reaching golf layouts does not deter you and if you have the capital to buy golf equipment, you too can be a golfer this spring
...France which characterize her as 'without thews and sinews' ... We have good reasons to know what an aggression is, and what it costs, and that is why we are doing and shall do all within our power not only to resist aggression, should it occur, but to deter it and to save the peace...