Word: weaponeers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grappled with the problem of the nation's debilitated military strength. The State Department moved on a new tangent into the mess of the Middle East. In collaboration with Britain and France, U.S. policymakers outsmarted Russia at Trieste. Meanwhile, some private citizens seized upon and wielded a propaganda weapon which might be as sharply effective as anything so far contrived in official quarters...
What, then, could the U.S. do? Against Russian fifth columns, against sabotage and debilitating strikes, against the seizure of a country by its "own" Communist Party, the U.S. had as yet no effective weapon. The fall of Czechoslovakia four weeks ago, was final proof of that...
Challenge. In flat, precise tones Bob Taft methodically marshaled his arguments. ERP, said Taft, could never be justified on purely economic grounds. Neither was it "aimed at opposing any Communistic military attack." The only use that Taft could see for it was as a weapon "against the advance of Communist ideology throughout the world." For that reason, Taft was prepared to vote for it. But he warned that the initial outlay asked by the Administration might cause serious trouble in the U.S. economy. He urged that the figure for the first twelve months be sliced from $5.3 billion...
Navy, the defending champion in the epee and saber divisions and team leader in three-weapon totals, won handily in the first two but was deposed as team champion by CCNY. with a first in the foils, a second in the epee and a third in the saber...
Navy captured the Three Weapon Trophy back in 1943, but Peroy's men, who dropped a close one-point decision to Yale last week, are out to get the honor for the first time in the history of University fencing...