Word: peninsulas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hungry snapping turtle. Ragged with reefs and studded with wind-worn, prehistoric monuments, it is one of France's poorest but most picturesque regions. Even the names are striking: Brest and Quimper, Kernascléden and Morbihan-echoes of the Celtic invasion from Wales that settled the giant peninsula about 500 A.D. Life is hard and poor, and even the tourist trade is seasonal at best, for tourists come only when the wet, ragged winds from the Channel let up in the summer, and a pale sunlight ignites the Montagnes Noires. But tucked away in the bleakness of Brittany...
...simple: "les Américains." That phrase defines the hundreds of Gourinois natives who have spent years in self-imposed American exile, then returned to Gourin with a tidy nest egg. Brittany has long been one of France's few labor-exporting regions, thanks largely to the peninsula's unyielding poverty. But of all the towns that send Bretons to the U.S., Gourin sends the most...
...grounds of our contention in our "frankest moments, that Chinese imperialism is better for the East than American imperialism," are forced to call on you to end this minute your treacherous, oriental, imperialist policies. Your scheming, unprovoked stand "behind this whole movement to sweep the West off the peninsula," the peaceloving West which has never so much as megatonned a single Chinese city, and which has even borne the exorbitantly expensive burden of dominating South Vietnam for the last 11 years when this job really belonged to China, cannot be tolerated by May 2nd any longer. Such ungraciousness stretches...
...subtle, fiercely imperialistic adversary in the Communist Chinese. The assertion is not without truth. Although this view ignores the fact that Vietnamese peasants, and not Chinese, oppose the U.S. in Vietnam, it clarifies the fact that China stands behind this whole movement to sweep the West off the peninsula. There is a Chinese imperialism, just as real as American imperialism, that would gain from U.S. withdrawal...
...facts of the White Paper distort the reality, the liberal says, it is distortion in the good cause of holding Vietnam. And better to hold here, where the peninsula may still be defended, than to fall back to positions which will again be made untenable. If the Asian peninsula falls to the Chinese, the liberal argues, Japan and India might reconsider their relations with a power whose influence is waning in the East. Those are the real stakes, for which the liberal is willing to bear an extremely dirty war in Vietnam...