 | Herbert Agar - 1957 - Страниц: 213
...What they desire is the fruits of war and the indefinite expansion of their power and doctrines. ... I am convinced that there is nothing they admire so...there is nothing for which they have less respect than weakness, especially military weakness." Was not that a dainty dish to set before the king? King Demos,... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee - 1961 - Страниц: 1006
...and the United Nations, and he particularly emphasized these words which have meaning for us today. "From what I have seen of our Russian friends and...the war, I am convinced that there is nothing they so much admire as strength, and there is nothing for which they have less respect than weakness. We... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services - 1979 - Страниц: 296
...world- wide Russian Empire. Winston Churchill said it very well on a visit to the United States in 1946: "From what I have seen of our Russian friends and...less respect than for weakness, especially military weakeness. Mr. Churchill went on to say, in essence, that peace could be maintained in the world only... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations - 1979 - Страниц: 340
...Churchill said it very well on a visit to the US in 1946: "From what I have seen of our Russian friend? and allies during the war, I am convinced that there...military weakness. For that reason, the old doctrine of balance of power is unsound. We cannot afford, if we can help it, to work on narrow margins, offering... | |
 | Fraser J. Harbutt - 1988 - Страниц: 385
...future Cold Warriors, the assessment of the Soviets that finally begat the $300 billion defense budget: "There is nothing they admire so much as strength,...nothing for which they have less respect than for military weakness."2 It is a tribute to the quality of Churchill's mind that this remarkable forecast... | |
 | Walter Isaacson, Evan Thomas - 1997 - Страниц: 852
...description of the problem but his solution to it: an unabashed Anglo-American alliance against the Soviets. "I am convinced that there is nothing they admire so much as strength," the former Prime Minister rumbled. And this, he added, required a "fraternal association of the English-speaking... | |
 | William L. O'Neill - 1986 - Страниц: 340
...yet of Western disapproval. And it recommended the strongest medicine. Churchill said of the Russians "I am convinced that there is nothing they admire...there is nothing for which they have less respect than military weakness." Nor did the Administration confine itself to purely rhetorical efforts. When Russian... | |
 | Kenneth W. Thompson - 1991 - Страниц: 232
...awareness of the importance of strength: "I am convinced that there is nothing they [the Russians] admire so much as strength, and there is nothing for which they have less respect than for weakness." Once the military, economic, and moral strength of America had been added to that of the English-speaking... | |
 | Robin W. Winks - 1993 - Страниц: 596
...of clear warnings backed by the creation of military alliances. At Fulton, Churchill also had said: From what I have seen of our Russian friends and allies...respect than for weakness, especially military weakness. The Western policymakers took Churchill's advice. They would have to contain further Soviet expansion.... | |
 | Robert J. Donovan - 1996 - Страниц: 518
...What they desire is the fruits of war and the indefinite expansion of their power and doctrines. . . . From what I have seen of our Russian friends and allies...respect than for weakness, especially military weakness. Truman was right in predicting a stir. It was all the greater because by escorting Churchill, introducing... | |
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From what I have seen of our Russian friends and Allies during the war, I am convinced that there is nothing they admire so much as strength, and there is nothing for which they have less respect than for weakness, especially military weakness. 
