Word: warriorism
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Politically, it damaged the Republican Party's prestige across the U.S. Reason: both the "good guys" and the "bad guys" were Republicans. Secretary Stevens, as the Administration's chief warrior, won sympathy as an earnest, long-suffering gentleman, but lost respect, perhaps irrevocably, when he told to what lengths he had gone to accommodate McCarthy, Cohn and Schine. Counselor Adams, the genial fixer, emerged as a sly fighter, but one whom Roy Cohn thought he could outwit-and nearly...
...warrior, so often called a war monger, seemed further intent on reversing his reputation. At a time when the tactical situation seemed to demand a show of determination in the face of the confident Communists at Geneva, Sir Winston's head seemed a dream with thoughts of compromise, concessions and soft words. Speaking last week to the Primrose League.* Churchill entered an unexpected personal plea for the establishment of "links" with Russia "which, in spite of all distractions and perils and contradictions, would convince the Russian people and the Soviet government that we wish them peace, happiness and ever...
Before the war, Bentinck-Smith's occupations were literary in one form or another, and the the prospect of military service was not an appealing one. "I was," he recalls, "a green, innocent fellow from Harvard; a guy, more a writer than a warrior, who found himself on a battleship in the Coral Sea." He served on Rear Admiral Willis Lee's communications staff and later was stationed in Washington...
...giving the rebels aid and comfort was none other than that aging Tory warrior, Sir Winston Churchill (see below...
Flapping his thick arms for emphasis, the old warrior cried: "Patience and perseverance must never be grudged when the peace of the world is at stake. Even if we had to go through a decade of cold-war bickerings punctuated by vain parleys, that would be preferable to the catalogues of unspeakable and unimaginable horrors which is the alternative." As for himself, he still had hopes for "a meeting like we used to have in the war." In Triumph and Tragedy, last volume of his war memoirs, Churchill agreed that at least one such meeting−Yalta−brought triumph...