Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germany chose to try for peace with Russia, the object would be to avoid another possible Versailles. Germany might get such a peace by ousting the Nazis and on fairly easy terms if Stalin would accept the kind of democratic-capitalist regime urged by the Free German Committee in Moscow (TIME, Aug. 2). A peace allowing the German State to retain an army and to rebuild its economy, a peace along the endless, abrasive eastern front, would be by no means unattractive to millions of Germans, even to some conservatives and some of the military. To the Nazis...
...disadvantage. The Nazis held as hostages for Italian conduct some 400,000 Italian workers in Germany, some 25 Italian divisions hemmed by the Wehrmacht in the Balkans. German troops had occupied the strategic sectors of northern Italy. The Nazi position seemed clear: if the Allies would not accept a neutral Italy, the Germans would accept nothing but Italy's continued alliance with the Reich. If Italy would not fight on with Germany, Germany would fight across Italy...
Nobody knows yet whether Pius XII will be invited to the peace conference that follows World War II or whether he would accept if he were invited. Benedict XV was expressly barred from Versailles by a clause in the secret treaty of London. But whether or not the Pope is present, the influence of the Catholic Church's peace policy will be tremendous. Most Catholics and non-Catholics alike would agree that a peace that does not embody, at least roughly, the papal position on fundamental social issues will bring not social peace but a sword. For when traditional...
Credit & Naiveté. In their first six months, Purdy & Rouse had more troubles than clients. But they learned the credit business the hard way. Credit managers refused to accept C.A.C. checks (they thought they could squeeze more money out of debtors themselves). Sharp-dealing installment houses cold-shouldered C.A.C., preferred to keep customers in debt buying shoddy goods at high prices. Loan sharks fought them as competitors. Detroit companies, suspicious of a racket, refused to mail them employes' checks...
...other way. Rigor will not do. Forster teases his medium and plays with his genre. He scorns the fetish of 'adequate motivation,' delights in surprise and melodrama and has a kind of addiction to sudden death." He has, says Trilling, "a whim of iron." And "to accept Forster we have to know that . . . improbability is the guide to life...