Word: dismays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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West European publicists have been giving the U.S. a shrewish scolding for headlong and over-energetic moves against Communism. Last week West European opinion swung around 180°; it showed dismay because some prominent Americans suggested that the U.S. reduce its world commitments. Europeans who were warning one day against too close an association with the reckless U.S. next day found themselves appalled by the threat of American "isolationism...
When Douglas MacArthur went to Formosa in August, the dismay of the U.S. State Department was audible all the way to Mao's palace. When MacArthur decided to warn publicly against the loss of Formosa, against "those who in the past propagandized . . . defeatism and appeasement in the Pacific," he was silenced by presidential command. By last week the net result of the U.S. action on Formosa had been to suspend the Nationalist sea-air blockade and thereby to open the ports of Red China for copper, oil and armaments from the West...
Here, as in the three previous volumes, are all the great Churchillian virtues. His candor, in a statesman commenting on events still fresh in memory, is a constant surprise. Much as it obviously pains him, he is not ashamed to voice his dismay at British mismanagement and failure at Singapore and Tobruk, where British armies surrendered to enemy forces about half their number. Admiring skill, he praised German General Rommel in a speech in the House of Commons during Britain's North African setbacks, and still sticks to his praise. When some Britons grumbled about Eisenhower's deal...
...Wails of Dismay. The mystery of what the Chinese interventionists were up to in Korea remained unclarified last week, and they refused to explain themselves at Lake Success (see below). But the theory that they intended to drive the Allies back below the 38th parallel, or even off the peninsula altogether, was somewhat less tenable than before. After the massive surprise attack of last fortnight, instead of pressing their advantage they stopped in their tracks and even pulled back, in some sectors, beyond reach of Allied patrols. They counterattacked cautiously when the regrouped U.N. forces advanced cautiously; but the whole...
Even if their only objectives were to defend a buffer zone south of the Yalu, and pin down the U.S. divisions.to a harsh winter war of attrition, the highly audible wails of dismay from the U.S.-from the public, which had expected the Korean war to be ended by now, and from statesmen who wanted to dispatch U.S. divisions to Europe-must have been music to Red ears...