Word: widens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first days, issues had already been clearly struck. One was really just a question of fact-whether the Joint Chiefs of Staff had or had not supported Douglas MacArthur's proposals for Korea. The basic military dispute was whether to widen the war against China. Would widening it win it? Would it bring World War III with Soviet Russia? Would it inflict a defeat that Russia couldn't counter? Finally there was a question of leadership in the comity of nations. Said Douglas MacArthur, who had shaped his life to the principle: lead, the rest will follow...
...Furthermore . . . there is nothing that would give the Kremlin greater satisfaction than to see our resources committed to an all-out struggle in Asia, leaving Europe exposed to Soviet armies. [And] if the United States were to widen the conflict, we might well have to go it alone. The path of collective security is our only sure defense against the dangers which threaten us. It is the path to peace ... in the world. We are determined to do our utmost to limit the war in Korea...
Truman: "If the Communist authorities realize they cannot defeat us, if they realize it would be foolhardy to widen the hostilities beyond Korea, then they may recognize the folly of continuing their aggression...
Last week Editor Carter got a chance to widen his influence. In booming Natchez, whose population (now 22,678) has increased 48% in a decade, a group of businessmen started the afternoon Times 2½years ago to compete with the 86-year-old Natchez Democrat (circ. 4,918). The Times almost caught up in circulation (4,513), but made so little money that the owners were glad to turn over the paper's management and sell half its stock to Hod Carter for an undisclosed figure. Publisher Carter and his 35-year-old general manager, John T. Gibson...
CZECHOSLOVAKIA, 1938. General Legion: Tell Hitler to get out of there or else the free world is coming across the Rhine. Captain Truman: Send troops to Czechoslovakia, presumably by parachute, but do not widen the war by crossing the Rhine. Captain Truman's policy might have avoided World War II-in the sense that the Axis would have won the world without having to fight...