Word: asserting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eternal gods, there are men in the South, and women, too, who will not permit men in control of our party to betray or to insult us in the house of our fathers. We will assert ourselves . . . and we will vindicate ourselves; and if we cannot have a party in which we are respected, if we must be in a party in which we are scorned as southern Democrats, we will find a party which honors us, not because we are southerners, and not because of politics, but because we love our country and believe in the Constitution from which...
...Senators on both sides of the aisle, Whence comes the offense? How long shall we endure, how long shall we be patient, how long shall we forbear to assert our self-respect, to demand our rights as men and Americans, and to find our place in the sun of this our blessed land...
...difficulties is that, while the American people clearly recognize an actual interest in Europe, they do not recognize an immediate interest in such matters as the proper borders between, for example, Russia and Poland. Hull & Co. in Russia therefore must find some meaningful and forceful language with which to assert America's interest in a peaceful postwar Europe...
...large, but they soon will be. They are advancing from the Mediterranean into Southern Europe and toward Middle Europe-the areas to which Joseph Stalin is most sensitive. The range of Anglo-U.S. air power covers all Europe. Cordell Hull, of course, cannot and will not assert that these forces are or ever may be forces opposed to the Red Army. But Joseph Stalin himself, by his intense interest in the inter-Allied Mediterranean Commission-to which he took care to appoint one of his most formidable men-has already testified to the potency of American presence in Europe...
Friends in Waiting. In these countries and elsewhere the Soviet Government has no more interest in "democracy" as such than it has at home. But it does have-and will undoubtedly assert-an interest in the governments eventually set up in those countries...