Word: godless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Must Have a Leadership . . ." On Boston Common he drew a crowd which police said was as large as those that turned out for Al Smith or F.D.R. Ike concentrated on the threat of "godless Communism," which "strikes at the jugular vein of freedom...
...herring" at those who warned against the danger. Abroad, the Administration's foreign policy had managed to take a magnificent victory and run it into the ground to the point where 1) the U.S. was fighting a war in Korea without a plan for winning it, 2) "godless Communism" had conquered vast areas of the world, including China, at the average rate of 100 million people a year, 3) the U.S. was spending billions on defense but had no real or consistent program for winning and keeping the peace...
Last week the American Legion passed a spine-tingling resolution: "In defense of all it holds sacred, the American Legion has fought in three wars-yet this was not enough. Now the world must make its bloody choice between human dignity and godless tyranny . . . In the forefront of this combat, many Legionnaires will fall. For those men who are about to die, the American Legion has dedicated itself to call for and develop, among the citizenry of our land, the leadership it will require to win this world decision...
Black Monuments. Without naming either F.D.R. or Harry Truman, Eisenhower by implication accused them of having been too soft toward the Communist threat, both at home & abroad. "We have been too ready for too long to trust a godless dictatorship," he said grimly. "Think of the places that stand as black monuments to this misplaced trust. Our loss of China, a divided and almost naked Germany, the enslaved countries of the Baltic and the Balkans, the long and bloody struggle in Greece." That morning, Ike had said goodbye to his son, Infantry Major John Eisenhower, who is soon to leave...
...square, Eisenhower made a short Flag-Day speech. The American flag, he said, stands for a civilization built on religious beliefs. "And now another type of civilization challenges it; a civilization based upon the godless theory that man himself has no value...