Word: fatalities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vote: for the government resolution, 275; against, 244; abstentions, 103. This meant that the motion was carried, the government was still on its legs, and France would have a voice at Bermuda-but since a majority of the Deputies had failed to endorse EDC, it was an all but fatal blow to that embryonic enterprise. Said one diplomat: "If EDC is born in France, it will be born by Caesarean section. And it practically involves the death of the government bringing it forth...
Agents Inside. The plan was worthy of the Moscow-trained coup d'état experts who prepared it, but for one fatal flaw: Major General Farhat Dadsetan, Teheran's smart military governor, knew all about it from his secret agents in the Resistance. He summoned his commanders, told them to avoid gunfire if possible, so as to deny the Reds martyrdom. But if they had to shoot, the troops were to shoot to kill...
...answered the question for them: "They must have a heart of stone, and put pressure on the chemical workers . . . Concessions are opportunist, and opportunism is fatal...
...free world in Asia. The countries of that continent which still resist Communist aggression or infiltration would be discouraged by the cynical surrender of the free world to expediency and appeasement and the betrayal of the ideals of the United Nations. The Asian nations, in turn, would then make fatal compromises with the Communist bloc...
Then each applied to each that fatal knife...