Word: 1930s
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...Yossi's world Philip Roth and his fictional double would be dismissed as a Jewish Amos and Andy, a contributor to "a culture of self-abasement and vulgar excess." Young Halevi's heroes were fighting Jews: the Zionist firebrands of the 1930s; the invincible Israeli army; and U.S. extremists like Rabbi Meir Kahane, who founded the Jewish Defense League...
...lasting peace, until the U.S. shows its support with troops, the peace will not hold. The U.S. does have a moral obligation to help the people of the Balkans. Americans cannot allow the mass slaughter of innocent civilians to continue. The isolationism practiced in the West in the 1930s cannot be repeated. But President Clinton should seek congressional approval before sending in military forces. Without this, neither Congress nor the American people will give their full support to troops in Bosnia. SARAH FRANKLIN Auburn, Alabama...
...into the gray zone of civil war--a counterinsurgency or freedom fight, depending on who tells it, but in any case off limits to a Jesuitic fastidiousness against interfering in a sovereign state. This principle of inviolate borders underscores how much the U.N. was shaped by lessons of the 1930s: Mussolini's seizure of Ethiopia, Japan's invasion of China and Hitler's devouring the appetizer of the Sudetenland. As generals tend to fight the last war, so the U.N.'s founders undertook to preserve the last peace...
...Dutch should know by now that we cannot pull our finger out of the fragile dike holding back the floods of fascism. They were neutral toward Hitler in the 1930s and said World War II wasn't their war either. That is, until they were overrun by the blitzkrieg and had to be saved by American and British forces. We must never forget...
Tierney discussed the complacency that afflicted the Democratic party after the New Deal in the 1930s...