Word: threatened
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pull out of Korea. Complete withdrawal would threaten Japan's security and undermine anti-Communists throughout Asia. Alternatives: pull U.N. troops out of the trenches, but threaten the Communist China mainland with air and naval retaliation if the Reds cross the present Korean front lines; replace U.N. troops on the line with South Koreans as fast as they are trained. Keep U.S. supporting arms (air, artillery, supply) in action, but hold infantry divisions in strategic reserve...
...such activity, MacLeish has faced the problems of democracy first hand, and has been conscious especially of the ambiguities and has been conscious especially of the ambiguities and enigmas of life. His subject matter, therefore, often lies in the realm of forces which affront human dignity and which threaten human freedom. One never doubts his sincerity and authority. Yet his feelings tend to overshadow some of his work, the flame obscures the value of the poem as a whole. Selections from Frescoes for Mr. Rockefeller's City (1932) and Public Speech (1936) have this blemish, although they contain, vivid imagry...
Says Nobel Prizewinner Harold C. Urey: "The difficulties in securing visas for foreign scientists .... threaten to make all satisfactory contact between American and European scientists impossible in the near future." Says Nobelman Arthur H. Compton, Chancellor of Washington University: "One of the greatest assets of the United States in the century past has been the freedom of our scientists -. . . to invite others to bring their ideas personally to us ... In a period when our welfare and safety depend on maintaining . . . leadership, it is of double importance that this freedom in the exchange of ideas be maintained...
...theater owners up in arms last week. But actually, such a move would make little economic sense to RKO at present. In addition to its old films, RKO has a backlog of upwards of $35 million worth of unreleased pictures. If exhibitors boycotted the new films, as they threaten to do if RKO jells to TV, the studio could easily lose more than a TV deal might make. President Stolkin also soothed the exhibitors with word that RKO was planning no such sellout to TV at present. Said he: "RKO movies and television are not married, but engaged...
Neither present laws no future ones offer any solution, since throttling the, extremes would inevitably threaten the moderates' freedom as well. The answer is the simple one that a democracy has always afforded to citizens: counterpressure, provided by the majority, only public realization of freedom's worth in education all public pressure to protect that freedom can rid communities of super-patriot footholds...