 | Dean Acheson - Biography & Autobiography - 1970 - 858 pages
...fight Europe's war with arms, while the diplomats there still fight it with words; that if we lose this war to Communism in Asia the fall of Europe is inevitable;...we must win. There is no substitute for victory." On April 5 Mr. Martin released this letter, an open declaration of war on the Administration's policy,... | |
 | Edward L. Daily - Korean War, 1950-1953 - 1990 - 138 pages
...fight Europe's war with arms while the diplomats there still fight it with words; that if we lose this war to Communism in Asia the fall of Europe is inevitable,...probably would avoid war and yet preserve freedom. As you point out, we must win. 'There is no substitute for victory." In 1951, defeat of Red China, whether... | |
 | D. Clayton James - History - 2010 - 322 pages
...fight Europe's war with arms while the diplomats there still fight it with words; that if we lose this war to Communism in Asia the fall of Europe is inevitable;...probably would avoid war and yet preserve freedom. As you [Martin] pointed out, we must win. There is no substitute for victory.31 At the Senate hearings, MacArthur... | |
 | Richard Halworth Rovere - History - 366 pages
...their play for global conquest . . . that here we fight Europe's war with arms while the diplomats there still fight it with words; that if we lose the...communism in Asia, the fall of Europe is inevitable." He continued to defend all these propositions in the Senate hearings. But it became clear that the... | |
 | Suzy Platt - Quotations, English - 1992 - 550 pages
...issue thus raised on the battlefield; that here we fight Europe's war with arms while the diplomats there still fight it with words; that if we lose the...out, we must win. There is no substitute for victory. DOUGLAS MACARTHUR, letter to Representative Joseph W. Martin, Jr., March 20, 1951.— Military Situation... | |
 | James T. Patterson - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 881 pages
...issue thus raised on the battlefield; that here we fight Europe's war with arms while the diplomats there still fight it with words; that if we lose the...probably would avoid war and yet preserve freedom. As you point out, we must win. There is no substitute for victory.-*9 In writing such a letter to a partisan... | |
 | Robert J. Donovan - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 452 pages
...issue thus raised on the battlefield; that here we fight Europe's war with arms while the diplomats there still fight it with words; that if we lose the...probably would avoid war and yet preserve freedom. As you point out, we must win. There is no substitute for victory.47 The letter, Marshall later testified,... | |
 | Harry S. Truman - Presidents - 1997 - 496 pages
...issue thus raised on the battlefield; that here we fight Europe's war with arms while the diplomats there still fight it with words; that if we lose the...probably would avoid war and yet preserve freedom. As you point out, we must win. There is no substitute for victory. "Martin at first did not know what to do... | |
 | Gary R. Hess - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 282 pages
...issue thus raised on the battlefield: that here we fight Europe's war with arms while the diplomats there still fight it with words; that if we lose the...probably would avoid war and yet preserve freedom." He concluded with what was to become a favorite refrain: "There is no substitute for victory." Truman... | |
 | William M. Leary - History - 2001 - 576 pages
...the PRC. "[If we lose this war to communism in Asia] the fall of Europe is inevitable," he warned. "[Win it and] Europe most probably would avoid war and yet preserve freedom ... we must win. There is no substitute for victory."35 The administration's public case against an... | |
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It seems strangely difficult for some to realize that here in Asia is where the Communist conspirators have elected to make their play for global conquest, and that we have joined the issue thus raised on the battlefield; that here we fight Europe's war... 
