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The Domino Principle

John Foster Dulles
John Foster Dulles

Phraseologism: The principle of dominoes.

Meaning: About a seemingly insignificant incident that causes a chain reaction of events with irreversible, devastating consequences.

Origin: From English: "The Domino Prinsiple". At the heart of the expression is the so-called "domino theory" or, more precisely. "The Falling Domino Prinsiple" theory, developed during the Cold War era by US Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. He first stated its essence (April 3, 1954) at a secret meeting with congressional leaders, which he held to persuade congressmen to give the US president the right to "use air and sea power in Indochina." Since, he said, if "Indochina falls" (communists come to power in the countries of Indochina. - Comp.), then this will mean for the United States the loss of all of Southeast Asia, and then they will have to "retreat back to Hawaii, where they were before World War II." Four days later, the 34th President of the United States (1953-1961), Dwight Eisenhower (1890-1969), in his public speech, compared the whole of Asia with a combination of dominoes - touch one, all the others will fall successively. He said, "You have a row of dominoes set up and you knock out the first one... What will happen to the next ones is very obvious - they will tip over very quickly. So you will get the beginning of a process of disintegration that will have the most profound consequences." Turning to political reality, Eisenhower said that if the communists "seize Indochina, then Burma, Thailand, Malaya and Indonesia may collapse next" (US History. Vol. 4. M., 1987). The metaphor itself ("falling dominoes") was borrowed by the developers of this theory from the American journalist Joseph Alsop.

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One hundred years of solitude.

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Title of a novel (published 1967) by Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez (1928-2014). The writer tells the story of the fictional small provincial town of Macondo through the history of the Buendia family, telling about the human characters, dreams and passions that overwhelm the members of this family.

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