Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world . . . The Soviet Union does not have to attack the United States to secure domination of the world. It can achieve its ends by isolating us and swallowing up our allies. Therefore, even if we were craven enough to abandon our ideals, it would be disastrous for us to withdraw from the community of free nations . . . No one nation can find protection in a selfish search for a safe haven from the storm...
Here was a conception brand-new to the long and fruity annals of jurisprudence. Under this conception, if the policeman finds that the dagger has penetrated the victim's flesh, it is permitted that he seize the criminal by the wrist and force him to withdraw the knife; but he may not take the dagger away, much less arrest the criminal...
...Withdraw from Korea, give materiel aid to Chiang Kaishek, and get the people of China to revolt against their Red leaders by a nagging strategic bombing of their land...
...forced to withdraw from Asia or to neglect Europe, many Germans will reject resistance measures and again seek for Rűckversicherung...
Beyond this, Pearson had no specific proposals. He thought the Western tune could be played by ear around the conference table. But broadly Canada favored a settlement in which Mao would withdraw from Korea in return for Western concessions-presumably the admission of the Chinese Communists to the United Nations and abandonment of Formosa and Chiang Kaishek...