Word: protected
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russia by finding some northwest or northeast passage. Warned that he would perish in the Arctic, Elizabethan Robert Thorne replied brusquely: "There is no land unhabitable, nor sea innavigable." So sure were these hardy Elizabethans of reaching their goal that they sheathed their cockleshell ships with lead, to protect the timbers from the worms of India...
...lesson is not to limit these liberties, but to be thoroughly conscious of American Communists' threat to liberties. True, the lesson is not more Truman Doctrines, but more affirmative, constructive policies, such as the Marshall Plan, to protect and hold democrats in their liberal convictions. Key Geotenberg...
...visit to China last summer is still under lock & key at the State Department. Two years ago, said Wedemeyer, economic help might have been enough for China. "Today, it's too late. ... I wouldn't send $200 million to China unless I sent military aid to protect it. ... We must think in terms of blood as well as treasure. ... If we don't take appropriate steps, we are going to pay in blood. I don't think dollars alone will stop the spread of Communism anywhere in the world...
...Last week Georgia's Grand Dragon Samuel Green carefully explained that Ku Klux Klansmen wear masks to protect themselves against the prejudice of Jews, Catholics and foreigners. *Southern man has seldom condemned sexual relations between whites and Negro women; before the Civil War, when mulatto slaves brought high prices, the practice was encouraged. Today, approximately 70% of American Negroes have some white blood...
...Czech crisis, stepped up pressure on France. The same Czech crisis had spurred the French to the realization that they had at least as much to fear from Russia as from Germany. Even plainer was the fact that only closest cooperation between the Western powers, including the U.S., could protect France from either Germany or Russia...