Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...such errors. In continuation of the policies of his predecessor, Pius XII identified as errors: 1) racism, and 2) totalitarianism. Of the first: "The Church of Christ . . . cannot, and does not, think of deprecating or disdaining the particular characteristics which each people with jealous and intelligible pride cherishes. . . . Her aim is a supernatural union in all-embracing love...
Lord Linlithgow issued a statement in Delhi. It was in answer to demands from Mahatma Gandhi's Indian National Congress Party as to what was going to happen to India during the war. Was India's dominion status a war aim? Dominion status, replied Lord Linlithgow, was certainly an aim of His Majesty's Government-after the war. In London, the Marquess of Zetland, Secretary of State for India, bade Indians meanwhile to "strive after that agreement among themselves without which they will surely fail to achieve that unity which is an essential of the nationhood...
Speaking yesterday afternoon at the Waldorf-Astoria before the first session of the Ninth Annual New York Herald Tribune Forum on Current Problems, President Conant declared, "The perpetual disintegration of hard and fast class lines would seem to me the first aim of an educational system in a country which believes in the desirability of a truly classless society...
...French and British people who are actually fighting the war need no further declaration of aims. They-like the Germans-are simply fighting for their lives; their war aim is to win the war. The chief benefit to the Allies in drawing up a set of war aims would be to satisfy, and perhaps enlist the sympathies of, neutral onlookers -particularly in the U. S. For the perplexed U. S. people strongly desire to know exactly what kind of world it is that the Governments of Great Britain and France are fighting to protect or gain. Nowhere was this...
...spectacle of the old bitter-end former Prime Minister advocating even listening to Adolf Hitler when the one formally announced war aim of Great Britain is to eradicate "Hitlerism" surprised those who had heard him on other occasions criticize the British Government for countenancing aggression in Manchukuo, Abyssinia, Spain, Czecho-Slovakia. While some M.P.s, many of them Tories, were known to feel that peace was worth almost any price, the House of Commons generally thought that the Lloyd George speech was at best untimely for Britain and were fearful that the reaction abroad would hurt. When hot-headed M.P.s came...