Word: globally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doing this, he told the Paris meeting, the United States could provide "a true global stalemate...
...will need most of the world on our side in the event of a global war," Reischauer said. He criticized MacArthur's policies for alienating our allies in the United Nations
...Global. In his first ten minutes, he disarmed critics who accused him of ignoring Europe, or of wanting to reimpose a discredited past upon Asia. "The issues are global," he said, "and so interlocked that to consider the problems of one sector oblivious to those of another is to court disaster for the whole. While Asia is com- monly referred to as the gateway to Eu rope, it is no less true that Europe is the gateway to Asia . . . There are those who claim our strength is inadequate to protect on both fronts ... I can think of no greater expression...
Douglas MacArthur believed that "here in Asia is where the Communist conspirators have elected to make their play for global conquest," and that the battle might be lost before Harry Truman decided it had begun. Harry Truman, as the first of 18,000 telegrams and 50,000 letters poured in, knew that he faced the biggest political storm of his stormy political career...
MacArthur has great respect for authority. During much of his career, he worked under chiefs with whom he did not wholly agree. He and Roosevelt clashed on global strategy for World War II. The fact that he differed with Roosevelt was well known. MacArthur, however, fought a highly satisfactory war within Roosevelt's overall strategy, and the disagreement never became a scandal. The MacArthur-Truman scandal grew out of the fact that MacArthur's view on the Korean war was firmly stated and well-known while Truman's view was still a matter of hot debate among...