Word: umbrellas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...actions to resist or diminish the aggressive power of world Communism are protected by an umbrella-the superiority of the anti-Communist world in atomic bombs and in the long-range ability to equip and sustain modern armies, navies and air forces. The U.S. superiority in atomic bombs is probably at least 10 to 1. The superiority of the free world over the Communist world in steel production is 4 to 1, in oil 10 to 1, in aluminum...
...atomic umbrella continues to protect a united free world, if the U.S. strengthens Europe and Asia fast enough, if Communism is rolled back, the West can confront the Kremlin with the conditions for peaceful coexistence...
...side, the petulance reached a sorry point a fortnight ago when six Newark war veterans sent Prime Minister Clement Attlee a cablegram: "Just in case Mr. Chamberlain didn't leave you his, we are forwarding you an umbrella. It may come in handy in Peking...
...with the umbrella was a piker. Fifteen million Czechs, he felt, was not too great a price to pay for "peace for our time." Take Herbert Hoover now, on the other hand, he conceives things on a far more grandiose scale. In order to buy a small but unknown number of years of uneasy peace for the Americas, he is perfectly willing to let all other peoples of the world disappear into abject slavery behind the Iron Curtain...
...Brash Russell Birdwell, pressagent, bought a full-page ad in the Hollywood Reporter to clobber Britain's Socialist Prime Minister Clement Attlee in plain view of impressionable movie moguls. "He conies-this socialist of a beggar government . . . with an umbrella borrowed from Chamberlain to warn the President that we must withdraw from Korea-to hell with our brave kids . . . and to invite butchers of our wounded boys to seats at the U.N. . . . America will go it alone!" The British consul-general in Los Angeles wrote a letter in reply to suggest politely that Birdwell keep cool...