Word: resisting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Denied Chiang's statement that the U.S. had approved his Quemoy buildup, countered flatly that the U.S. "did not attempt to veto it"-but nonetheless had thought the move unwise (a military point seriously disputed by the Pentagon, which thought Chiang's buildup none too large to resist invasion...
...dangerous for the free world for the simple reason that the West has based its defense on nuclear weapons: "Nowhere in the Western world are there sufficient conventional forces to resist the Soviet preponderance in conventional strength . . . Nothing now stands in the way of Soviet domination of Eurasia save the Soviet reluctance to pay the price of a nuclear...
...Make it harder for the U.S. to get on with the task of arming its NATO allies with nuclear weapons; without nuclear weapons of its own, a Europe totally dependent for its safety on U.S. retaliatory power "will find it impossible to resist the increasingly bold Soviet threats of nuclear warfare...
...such a plan proved workable, says Kissinger, it might be possible to go on to further disarmament measures. But Soviet leaders, he adds, will never accept genuine disarmament as long as Western irresolution leads them to hope that they can "undermine the will to resist aggression with the only effective weapon now at our disposal...
...Miss Hurst is not one to resist such a demand...