Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...while last week, the long-awaited popular revolt seemed to be rising in Argentina. Opposition groups, disgusted with the militarists led by Colonel Juan Domingo Perón, were getting together under the name of Comando Unico (Single Command). Their aim: to throw out all the barrack-room statesmen, set up a civilian government pledged to hold elections...
...great United Nations concern is the future of Axis educational systems. Britain's Baron Vansittart of Denham advocates supervision of German schools by 1,000 or so United Nations inspectors, who would aim to raise a generation of woolly lambs fit to lie down with any lion. Last week a similar idea was expressed in Princeton's Public Opinion Quarterly by Gregor Athalwin Ziemer, who once ran the American Colony School in Berlin (1928-39), then wrote Education for Death (Hitler's Children on the screen). Said Ziemer...
...outstanding important offices in the Government are held by Christians. . . . One of the fundamental objectives of the Christian movement is to bring men and women into such vital contact with the life-changing power of Jesus that their lives will be reintegrated around Jesus and around His great aim of doing God's will on earth. China certainly needs more military equipment, including bombers for the defense of her country, but she also needs a new dynamic, the power...
...more than a Methodist leader. He is a great interfaith leader, and Chinese of all beliefs know of him and his work for Chinese unity. He is a prime force in the Fellowship of Religious Believers, a group which includes not only Chinese Christians but Buddhists, Confucianists, Mohammedans. Their aim: brotherhood among all China's millions...
...Journal's conclusion: The British are not likely to take all this lying down. "In the interest of continuing intimate relations with the British Navy we must not forget that command of the sea always has been its aim and boast...