Word: parallelism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...well. [But] we must not fall into the error of evaluating such . . . successes as decisively leading to the enemy's defeat." MacArthur added that the mountainous terrain, outnumbered U.N. forces, and political decisions over which he had no control made "purely academic" any talk of crossing the 38th parallel...
...first program, "Newsfronts of War-1940," M.O.T. compares the crisis climate of 1939 with today. At intervals, the filmed account of Nazi blitzkrieg and Japanese aggression in China is broken for discussion, by Commentator John Daly and Guest Correspondents David Douglas Duncan and Manfred Gottfried, of the ironies and parallels of contemporary history. An outstanding parallel: world peace, threatened by the 1939 Soviet-Nazi pact, is similarly threatened in 1951 by the Soviet-Red China pact...
Meanwhile, in Washington President Truman said that Allied troops are still operating under United Nations authority to cross the 38th parallel. The extent they would cross the line, he added, was a matter of military strategy in the hands of General Douglas MacArthur...
Said a U.S. officer, who had hoped that Douglas MacArthur's coast-to-coast line below the 38th parallel could be held: "What are you going to do when the enemy doesn't care how many men he loses...
...Deadly Parallel. "I could have flung my arms round his neck and kissed him," writes Author Buber. Under Two Dictators is her story of the seven brutal years behind barbed wire that led up to that first moment of freedom. Taken separately, Part I ("Soviet Concentration Camp, Karaganda") and Part II ("Nazi Concentration Camp, Ravensbrück") will be familiar reading to those who have conscientiously suffered through the tales of terror told by other survivors of NKVD or Gestapo imprisonment. Taken together, the two parts balance the scales in a deadly parallel never before made by a victim...