Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prevent the domination of China by any nation which might eventually mobilize the 450 million Chinese for war against us is a vital interest of the United States. . . . Can China be kept out of the hands of Stalin? Certainly-and at a cost to ourselves which will be small compared to the magnitude of our vital interest in the independence of China. By what means...
...Mongolia." Therefore if the Chinese Government should attempt by arms to regain its province of Manchuria, and Outer Mongolia should go to the assistance of the "People's Republic of Manchuria," the Soviet Union under its pact with Outer Mongolia regretfully would be obliged to use force to prevent the Chinese Government from inflicting injury on the forces of Outer Mongolia . . . the Chinese Government would be forbidden to attempt to recover its province of Manchuria...
...room, on the second floor of Langdell Hall, will be air-conditioned and humidity-controlled to prevent deterioration of the valuable documents it will contain, several of which date back...
...part this was General Chang's effort to retrieve past Chinese blunders; in part it was Chang's bid for the loyalty of the Moslem Turkis in the larger struggle which seeks to prevent Sinkiang from becoming the "Poland of Asia...
...legal rights were the least important. Prussia, he argued, was entitled to territory commensurate with her stature as a state; Prussia could govern Silesia better than Austria could; it was Prussia's destiny, and anyway he was only striking first, for it was a defensive war designed to "prevent others [from] seizing" Silesia, and to bulwark Prussia against her enemies. The works of Prussia's enemies, then and in the dreadful Seven Years' War that followed, were represented by Frederick as "a conspiracy"; but if they conspired against him, he had led them into...