Word: preventers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...motley collection of uprooted folk, they had no status quo to preserve, no hopes to lose. Consequently they fought as desperate men. Their mission was akin to that of Communists everywhere: to uproot their countrymen, to spread despair, to kill hope, to smother enterprise, to prevent the sowing of crops, until even the tyranny of Communism would seem by comparison a haven...
...other conclusion was that even U.S. support of the Brussels pact (see INTERNATIONAL) would not prevent the rape of Western Europe unless U.S. military strength were increased sharply. Like Smith, Forrestal urged passage of U.M.T. He added a request for selective service, to fill the ranks until U.M.T. could get under...
...there were other diplomatic moves. In the U.N., the U.S. took a humiliating step to reverse an inept, unworkable policy in Palestine (see above). In Turin, Foreign Minister Georges Bi-dault, as spokesman for the West, proposed the return of Trieste to Italy. That was a sound effort to prevent a Communist victory in the Italian elections next month, to draw a non-Communist Italy into the orbit of Western Union. Still further bids to the Italian voters were in the works. One prospect: a U.S. proposal that Italy be admitted...
...correct thing to do is to tell the Italians that they can choose almost any party they like, but not Communism. The U.S. should make it clear now that it will use force, if necessary, to prevent Italy from going Communist. What a howl would go up! But Italy, a great country, is a nation we have just defeated. We had to fight Italy because she was politically so decadent or so immature or so irresponsible as to accept a Fascist regime which, beside being antidemocratic, constituted a menace to other nations. There is no reason to allow...
Dean Irwin N. Griswold, next to occupy the podium, joined in recognition of the expertly executed place, and only regretted that he "had to have his back to it" most of the time. This respect for art did not prevent the Dean from ordering its removal by the end of the fourth lecture in the classroom...