Word: wanted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...both love authority and leadership. But the basic division is not one of personality: it cuts far deeper, into national hopes & fears. Fundamentally, the British distrust the French and do not believe that France and Western Europe could be successfully defended against attack. They foresee only another Dunkirk and want to keep their military commitments on the Continent to a minimum. The British attitude toward the defense of the Continent is parallel to the distrust of "European entanglements" by those U.S. leaders who oppose the Atlantic pact and M.A.P...
...pocket, De Lattre's superior, U.S. General Jacob Devers, put the XXI U.S. Army Corps under his command (other U.S. officers were outraged by this move). Throughout the fighting, Devers kept up a stream of suggestions to De Lattre via field telephone. Finally De Lattre exploded: "If you want me to run this battle, leave me alone. If you want to run it, come here and take over." Devers, who respects De Lattre as a first-rate soldier, smiled: "I was wondering how soon he would say that...
Matsumoto: "We don't want to imitate Russia. We want national independence. This cannot be obtained without Communism, because American capitalists are colonizing Japan, and we would end this...
Welles: "Do you still want to die for the Emperor...
...patiently listened to a string of well-heeled callers telling him why he should send "that damned schoolteacher" back to Argentina (where Arevalo spent 15 years). A smart politician, Arana was friendly to all, made promises and took no action-except to put down outright revolt. He did not want to upset the government; he wanted to be elected President himself in 1950, when Arevalo's term ends...