Word: iii
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russia did come into the Asian war, would it mean World War III...
MACARTHUR : Not necessarily. A quick decision in Korea can avert World War III...
...Juan and Evita Perón's Argentina, events are marching decisively in 1951. Inflation remains the country's greatest problem and peril, but the threat of World War III has given the economy a temporary lift. The war, Argentines feel sure, will not be their war; ever since sentiment flared up last summer against sending even token forces to Korea, Perón has proclaimed that Argentines will defend their own black soil, and no more...
...struck. One was really just a question of fact-whether the Joint Chiefs of Staff had or had not supported Douglas MacArthur's proposals for Korea. The basic military dispute was whether to widen the war against China. Would widening it win it? Would it bring World War III with Soviet Russia? Would it inflict a defeat that Russia couldn't counter? Finally there was a question of leadership in the comity of nations. Said Douglas MacArthur, who had shaped his life to the principle: lead, the rest will follow you. Cautioned Harry Truman, in his fashion...
...President played on two themes: the horror of a World War III ("Cleveland or Chicago, Seattle or New York, or any of our other great cities might be destroyed") and his hope for avoiding it. In effect, though he was careful not to say it so flatly, he argued that the U.S. was winning the cold war and the Korean war. Said...