Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...until arrested-and, if arrested, they should go on a hunger strike until death. But the ghetto despaired of action: "At 11 in the morning you will begin telling . . . [the exiled Jewish leaders] about the anguish of the Jews in Poland, but at 1 o'clock they will ask you to halt the narrative so they can have lunch. That is a difference which cannot be bridged...
...moment the formula works, but the day may soon come when Germany may ask for the right to ship fully equipped troops in vastly increased numbers. That day will come if the Allies move into Norway. And that is the point at which Sweden's neutrality will get its final test. If the Swedes refuse and Germany attacks Sweden, then, and only then, will Sweden go to war. The Swedes say that they will refuse further concessions and if the refusal means war, Ja Visst is all right with them. A stubborn neutral is getting...
...dubious success of our own education seems to me to call for great humility. . . . That raises the question of the extent to which mass political behavior is influenced by education. We have to ask ourselves how Germans became Nazis in the first place. The millions of youth who pushed Hitler to power were not taught Hitlerism in their schools and universities. . . . The fact is that what students were taught in their schools did not conform to the reality which they saw in life. . . . Democracy failed to provide . . . a satisfactory social and economic existence. . . . Hitler merely canalized the almost universal discontent...
...stock. Now all that needs to be done to make the merger a fact is for stockholders and a brace of regulatory bodies, including the Federal Communications Commission, to approve the specific deal. By next fall anyone who wants to send a telegram will almost certainly have to ask for Western Union...
Winston Churchill reminded the world of a military fact which even Britons have lately tended to forget. In a broadcast from the White House (see p. 13) to Britain's seldom-honored Home Guard, he said: "People who note and mark our growing mastery of the air . . . ask whether the danger of invasion has not passed away. Let me assure you of this, that until Hitler and Hitlerism are beaten into unconditional surrender the danger of invasion will never pass away...