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Here was our only conquest: all we asked of Italy was enough of her soil in which to bury our gallant dead.

— Mark W. Clark Calculated Risk (1950)

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They are men who paid heavily for their page in history.

Calculated Risk (1950)

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I consider the South Koreans one of our greatest allies, a people who know communism and hate it and are not afraid to die fighting it.

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Calculated Risk (1950)

My doubts were based on my conviction that the Communist enemy is a voracious beast. The more he is given, the hungrier he becomes. And as long as we of the free nations continue to lead from fear, to react from fright, he will be a well-fed enemy.

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