Word: globally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...letter to Republican Minority Leader Joe Martin, MacArthur wrote bitterly: "My views and recommendations have been submitted to Washington in most complete detail. It seems strangely difficult for some to realize that here in Asia is where the Communist conspirators have elected to make their play for global conquest... that here we fight Europe's war with arms while the diplomats there still fight it with words, that if we lose the war to Communism in Asia, the fall of Europe is inevitable, win it and Europe most probably would avoid war and yet preserve freedom...
Never before in modern times had the free press of the world raised its voice in such a thunderous defense of press freedom itself. From Bertie McCormick's isolationist Chicago Tribune to the global-minded New York Times, from Brazil's Correio da Manhá to Belgium's Catholic La Libre Belgique, editors drove their sharpest phrases into the tough hide of Argentina's Juan Perón last week for his suppression of La Prensa (TIME...
...million enlightened people can still whip 190 million backward people ... If they [the Russians] declare war now, they are really fools. They cannot win on the global picture instantly and quickly by a complete knockout. They would face a long, bitter struggle of attrition against the United States, and [the American] people-when they are united under an attack-are still the most powerful force on this earth under the Almighty himself...
Prime Minister Nehru and other Indian global spokesmen show a tolerance of Communism which seems to be for export only. At home, government pressure on Communists has helped to roll back their influence in recent months. Last week India's Communist party got another blow: the national Parliament (with only one dissenting vote) approved the extension of a law permitting the government to jail Communists (and black marketeers) without trial. The law, however, requires the police to consult with a board of retired judges on such arrests...
...attitude give the Kremlin reason to fear that other flagrant aggressions by the Red army will call forth the full power of U.S. retaliation. But the Kremlin knows it can still start brush fires which the U.S. and its allies will have to handle on a local, not a global, basis. Korea brought home to the U.S. the realization that in the long run it could not build enough fire engines to cope with all the brush fires world Communism could start; eventually, the arsonist's ability to start fires had to be ended or limited at the source...