Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fund was established as a memorial to General Evans Carlson who led "Carlson's Raiders" in Asiatic combat during...
Three arguments have turned up most frequently in support of the program. A group of high officers, including General Omar N. Bradley, have been supporting it from a military angle, claiming that strengthening the treaty countries would give us European bridgehead in case of war, that "abandosing these countries with a promise of later liberation" is militarily unsound. Bradley and his colleagues believe that the arms aid could enable Western Europe to hold on until the U. S. could "funnel in forces...
...help nations when they are attacked, and their indiscriminate arming prior to such attack. The only possible justification for a Western European arms aid program might be a military one, and the military argument is invalid. Outside of this, neither the solidarity of the North Atlantic nations nor the general international situation requiring this solidarity warrants such a program...
...initial step toward this end. "The only fair deal," he went on, "is a fair deal that allows the business man to do his job and reap his reward. I am not half as afraid of the gargantuan business as I am of the gargantuan state. You can quit General Motors but you can't quit a public health plan or compulsory education...
Rogge is an eminent lawyer and a former U. S. Assistant Attorney General. However, his book will not be taken too seriously by many people who consider that he is now less respectable because he ran for New York County Surrogate on the American Labor Party ticket and because he has defended unpopular people in generally unpopular causes...