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Contradictions. He testified one day that a truce in Korea at the 38th parallel would be "tantamount to ... defeat" for the U.S., yet said next day that if such a truce were offered, he would jump at it. He was emphatic in saying that the U.S. should be careful to work "under the aegis of the United Nations," yet he also said, "if they don't go along with us, I say we go alone." He took issue with the judgment of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on the whole broad strategy of the Korean war, yet advised...
...judgment we ought to get out of Korea . . . We are losing our finest manhood there. We have a stalemate that worries me no end, and what are we accomplishing there?" Pulling out of Korea, he conceded, is "tantamount to a defeat, in my judgment, but you must take counter-steps in other fields...
...marshaled his oft-reiterated and unproved allegations to obfuscate and postpone decisions." White asked some 200 students and parents whether obfuscate meant reverse, change, confuse or rearrange. Only 23 knew it meant confuse Results were similar for such standbys as plebiscite, inculcate, anomaly, shibboleth, indigenous, cataclysms, aggrandizement tantamount, statutory, encroachment, implementation and peripheral...
...backwards. One smart Russian move might be an offer of a "general" settlement in which the Communists would move back of the 38th parallel in Korea, and the U.S. would recognize Communist China and accept Mao Tse-tung's nominee for the United Nations. That would be tantamount to handing Asia over to Communism...
...equally responsible for its results." 2) The judge "can never pass a sentence which would oblige those affected by it to perform an intrinsically immoral act . . ."3) "Under no circumstances can a judge acknowledge and approve an unjust law . . . Therefore he cannot pass a sentence that would be tantamount to approval of it." 4) "However . . . the judge may-sometimes even must-allow the unjust law to run its course, if this is the only way to avoid a greater evil...