Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when Europe, with U.S. help, would have enough divisions to protect herself, thus making Russia think twice about her plans for world conquest...
When, Why, Where? Douglas began with an essential pointone sometimes obscured by the smoke of the oratory. The whole U.S. was agreed "on the basic ends we seek, namely, to protect our country from Communist aggression . . . The differences are merely on means and methods . . . When, at what points, how, and with whom should we prepare to defend ourselves...
...Protect Japan ("a special case") by making a quick peace with her and providing air and sea forces and "perhaps a few divisions" until the Japanese have built their own defense forces...
...fired into a car in which a planter's daughter, aged 2½, was riding. They hit the driver and the car went into the ditch. Then the bandits came up, shot the little girl through the head at close range, killed the cook boy who tried to protect her. "Swine -just swine!" exclaimed a British official, and the planters were even more bitter...
Cheers for Father. Le Huu Tu has so far managed to protect his bishopric from the Communists. Phat Diem is too small to warrant full-scale Viet Minh attack and too determined in its self-defense to be taken without such an attack. Le Huu Tu chuckles at his own cunning. Phat Diem people are happy about it too, because the net effect so far has been favorable : while other towns in the delta region have been systematically destroyed by earth-scorching Viet Minhs, Phat Diem and Bui Chu are alone unscathed...