Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Assuming that the United States has no interest in the Middle East beyond assuring a steady flow of oil to Europe, there can be no excuse for attempting to overthrow any existing government. Syria is not dominated by Communists, only by nationalists, but any attempt to install an American-dominated government by force will certainly result in a pro-Communist reaction...
...eight years of Red rule, there remain millions of Chinese, including the uncounted inside China itself, who maintain a stubborn faith that China will again be free. Each year on "Double Tenth" (the tenth day of the tenth month) they renew that faith in celebrating the anniversary of the overthrow of the Manchu dynasty and the founding of the Chinese Republic by Dr. Sun Yatsen. Last week, on a bright, breezy day, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek watched his U.S.-equipped Nationalist army roll by in an impressive display of motorized armor. Overhead Chinese and U.S. jets left vapor trails above...
...spread when the leaders launched a periodical calling on students all over the country to the fight. Hu Shih quoted one of the student leaders: "The call is for the mobilization of an army of one million youths to fight Communism, to oppose the so-called revolution, and to overthrow the real enemies of the people...
Kolakowski then attacks the sacred Marxist dogma of historical determinism. History is not predictable, he insists. This destroys the basis of the Soviet demand for blind obedience on the ground that whatever the party bosses decide to do is part of society's inevitable movement toward the overthrow of capitalism...
...would be too much to expect an economy-oriented Congress to provide at the same time for the possibility of American aid being asked in internal conflicts within countries with which we are allied. To give aid in cases where Communist troops threaten to overthrow friendly governments, such as Iraq, America would have to be able to get small units to the trouble areas in a flash. Such readiness would be too expensive to provide at the moment, and our best hope is that provisions for wars of small dimensions can be made now. We cannot allow such a palpable...