Word: expansionist
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...best reply is an indirect one. How many are there to be? And if we yield in the present confrontation, how much more difficult will be the next? For better or for worse, the U.S. is the 'policeman' on which the threatened peoples in China's expansionist path depend for whatever hope they have of independence and freedom...
...North Viet Nam's Ho Chi Minh might turn into the Tito of Asian Communism. This is possible, but only if Red China changes its nationalist-expansionist direction. Tito's Yugoslavia is separated by 200 miles of Carpathian wilderness from Russia, while North Viet Nam has a common frontier with China. Moreover, the Chinese have traditionally pushed south. Ho, whose basic training and sympathies derive from the Soviet Union, is now 75; most of his rising lieutenants are pro-Peking. A Viet Nam united under Communist rule would, for the foreseeable future, remain a Peking satellite...
Junkers & Jews. "Iron and blood" were his watchwords, but Bismarck just as often won his way by using bribery and bluster. Early in his expansionist program, France or even Italy could have stopped him from grabbing the other German states and trampling Austria. Bismarck scared off Napoleon III by threatening general war; that was mostly bluff, but the appeasing Napoleon was so racked with pain from bladder troubles that he scarcely knew what was going on. The Chancellor then bought off Italy's vain Victor Emmanuel by giving him the Order of the Black Eagle and promising...
...Shall Pay? There are obvious dangers in the new U.S. firmness. But the perils of pulling back or showing a lack of resolution are greater, the chief one being that Red China's expansionist government would see U.S. weakness as an invitation to crawl over South east Asia...
...years of service, the Emperor's new recruit was to liberate Central Europe after a century and a half of Turkish rule, to establish Habsburg hegemony in Italy, and then to hold it and the rest of the Holy Roman Empire against a far more powerful and expansionist France...