Word: musts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quail of which there is to be enough left to dine on, must be shot with "birdshot...
What, then, could the U.S. do? On one point the State Department and the military could agree: economic aid must be supported by some kind of military help and vice versa. An example of what that meant came this week from Brussels, where Britain and France seemed ready to join with Benelux in a military as well as economic alliance (see INTERNATIONAL). With full U.S. backing, such a pact might finally draw a firm line between the uncertain West and the all-too-certain East...
...thinking. In executive session with the committee, the Secretary of State continued to insist that the main battle against Communism would have to be fought in Western Europe. Because the U.S. could not now, any more than in World War II, fight with equal vigor everywhere, it must consider the eastern Mediterranean, the Middle East and the Far East as theaters of containment only. Marshall stubbornly refused to think of China in any other terms. So far as he was concerned, meager economic assistance had to suffice for the Chinese...
...China last summer is still under lock & key at the State Department. Two years ago, said Wedemeyer, economic help might have been enough for China. "Today, it's too late. ... I wouldn't send $200 million to China unless I sent military aid to protect it. ... We must think in terms of blood as well as treasure. ... If we don't take appropriate steps, we are going to pay in blood. I don't think dollars alone will stop the spread of Communism anywhere in the world...
...recent tragic events in Czechoslovakia have only proved definitely what we assumed then. Nevertheless, we still feel that if representative American students are to meet with students of other nations, we must continue to seek whatever opportunity the IUS affords to spread understanding and cooperation in the educational world...