Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whole trend of this policy for a dozen years has been more and more away from the Trotsky policy of "world revolution" and the spreading of Communism throughout the globe. In his great statesmanlike speech of November 6, 1942, he said, "It is not our aim to destroy Germany, for it is impossible to destroy Germany, just as it is impossible to destroy Russia, but the Hitlerite State can and should be destroyed...
...repeatedly stated, and we believe with all sincerity, that his main war aim is to free "Russian soil" from the Nazi armies, meaning that he intends to keep only those regions which used to be part of old Tsarist Russia: the Baltic Provinces of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania which in 1940 voted almost unanimously (under pressure) for incorporation into the Soviet the eastern half of pre-war Poland, occupied by Russian in 1939 and inhabited largely not by Poles but by White Russians and Lithuanians; the Ukraine; Bessarabia; and bits of Bukovina and Moldavia. If, in addition to gaining these...
Therefore it should be the aim of the United Nations first of all to foster local self-government in Germany. In every village there will be some men after the destruction of Nazism who will be recognized by their neighbors as decent and trustworthy. We do not know today who they are. But they will come" forward or be discovered when the Gestapo is no longer an omnipresent terror--perhaps a Lutheran pastor, a former burgomasters, a postman or other civil servant a decent army officer or soldier who is disillusioned about militarism, a former trade-unionist, or a brother...
...agencies' first aim was to eliminate the red-light district. This project annoyed many Army commanders, who argued that running prostitutes into the street would only increase the difficulty of venereal control. Nonsense, said Charlie Taft: a housed harlot could infect 20 to 75 soldiers a night, while the problems of a streetwalker limited the number of her prospective customers to five or six, and "red-light districts tend to advertise the product...
...said that there was no question as to foreign policy, the fullest prosecution of the war being the aim of all, and that the current history of the Democrats on other issues indicated that they would be the party most fit to solve the problems...