Word: strength
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, the Communists are increasing the military pressure with raids across the border. Brigadier General William L. Roberts, who will head the U.S. military advisory group in Seoul, estimates that 100,000 Korean veterans of the Chinese Communist army have recently returned to North Korea. They will add their strength to 200,000 Soviet-trained Korean veterans...
Real security, Lilienthal insisted, must always be considered in broader terms than "padlocks, safes and loyalty investigations." He added: "Security in the real sense is whether the country's strength is increased...
...NATIONAL AFFAIRS) and Winston Churchill. Said Churchill in London: "There was a time in 1935 and 1936 when I used to hear . . . 'ancestral voices prophesying war!' But now I am thankful to say I do not hear those voices ... I have a growing hope that by the strength of our united civilization, and by our readiness and preparedness to defend freedom with our lives, we may avert forever the horrible vision of a third world...
...General Walter Bedell Smith last week recalled a revealing remark Stalin had made when Smith was U.S. Ambassador in Moscow. Stalin had told him: "We do not want war any more than the West does, but we are less interested in peace than the West, and therein lies the strength of our position...
...regime struggled to keep alive, ambitious Juan Lechin gained strength through new or renewed alliances with resurgent elements of the totalitarian M.N.R., with Trotskyist and Communist-line unions. His powerful combine was responsible for much of the pressure that last month forced President Enrique Hertzog to take sick leave (TIME...