Word: imperialistically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Writing in a rhetoric-ridden English which he learned as a student at Amherst and Harvard, Kase repeats many of the glib imperialist excuses that Westerners have heard before, e.g., the characterization of the China invasion as an anti-Communist crusade, the explanation of Japan's joining the Axis as "a means of improving Japan's diplomatic position visa-vis the democratic powers" in order to secure peace. Yet Author Kase's hatred for the army's trigger-happy expansionists sounds sincere enough. And he has little more regard for the navy, although he records that...
...facts mean that it must be American policy that if further aggressions occur at any point in the world by these Communist imperialist forces, we shall hold the Kremlin strictly responsible? . . . Should we not make it clear [such attacks] will mean that war will come to Moscow, to the Urals and to the Ukraine?" The U.S. Congress, in a resolution, should lay such an ultimatum before Moscow, said Stassen...
...sitting in foxholes near Chin-ju . . . are out, like Genghis Khan, to enslave the world? Show me any one of these U.S. soldiers, Mr. President, who would rather reign in Outer Mongolia than go back to Seattle, and I will gladly concede your point about 'imperialist America.' Until then...
...unfortunate name for a force in a fight where the enemy accused the U.S. of trying to fasten the imperialist yoke on Asia, but straight out of the Navy's alphabet. "Yoke" is Navy...
Ring wrote blasts denouncing Trotskyites, signed an open letter defending the Moscow purge trials, sponsored the American Youth for Democracy, opposed the "imperialist" war until Hitler turned it into "a people's war" by invading Russia. Like a mouse in a maze, he followed every turn and twist of the party line...