Word: resisting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...They say they want other free nations to resist aggression, said he, "but they don't want us to send any troops to help. They want us to get out of Korea-but they urge us to wage an aggressive war against China. They say it will provoke Russia to attack if we send troops to Europe-but they are sure Russia won't be provoked if we carry the war to China.They say they want to crush Communism —and yet they want us to go back into our shell, and let the rest of the world...
...enemy in any place not of the enemy's choosing. In fact, Truman was proceeding on the opposite (or MacArthur) principle when he issued his great statement of June 27, 1950. The Reds had invaded South Korea and Truman proclaimed to the world that the U.S. would resist this aggression. He did not, however, limit his action to Korea. In the same brief statement he said that the U.S. would defend Formosa (this decision reversed an Acheson policy) and give additional aid to anti-Communist forces in the Philippines and Indo-China...
...this message: "We resent the accusations against France which characterize her as 'without thews and sinews' ... We have good reasons to know what an aggression is, and what it costs, and that is why we are doing and shall do all within our power not only to resist aggression, should it occur, but to deter it and to save the peace...
...attack next month, counts on the improved morale of his present forces and the increasing flow of U.S. material to hold the enemy. About June he hopes to launch a counteroffensive that will drive the Communists back across the Chinese border, put the French in a strong position to resist further attacks. He will need 1) officers and noncoms to replace those lost in combat, 2) men to train the Vietnamese army, which he plans to raise from...
...bushes in the wheat belt. Another is to hope that the weather will not be favorable for the fungus wintering in Texas. The Department of Agriculture, after taking a horrified look at the Race 156 situation, trusts neither of these methods. It is trying to breed wheat that can resist. By growing its new varieties in winter in the Imperial Valley, it gets two generations a year, speeds up the development process...