Word: belief
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These were the men who had gone beyond the turning-back, who had forcefully sworn their belief that repeal of the arms embargo was the first fateful footstep on a one-way road to war. Their votes and influence only two months ago had balked a then-irritable and often angry Franklin Roosevelt as he sought the embargo's repeal. They had forced adjournment without new neutrality legislation. And Borah had been their spokesman, as he quietly insisted in a White House night conference that he knew there would be no war-his sources of information were "better than...
...times of great emergency, men of the same belief must gather together for mutual counsel and action. If they fail to do this, all that they stand for will be lost...
...where Russian troops had reached the northeastern frontier; in Hungary, where a Nazi invasion or a Nazi coup d'etat had been expected for so long that stories of a two-week delay seemed hopeful; in Bulgaria, where dreams of getting a slice of Rumania flourished under the belief that Russia had embarked on an aggressive policy; in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, the countries most directly threatened by German-Russian collaboration, the meaning of Germany's drive through Poland was clear. No historical precedent justified a fear that such ill-assorted partners as Germany, Russia, Italy, Japan, Turkey...
...peace conference. Wrote Dr. Palmer (before the war began) : "Recommending a peace conference was like advocating the wisdom of insurance in the midst of a city-wide conflagration." The board surveyed the background of the world's disorders, presented some political and economic principles based upon its belief that "the Church Universal ... is not a mere idea but a reality, transcending the nations. It is created by the will of God, not by the will of men. For this reason faith in the Universal Church is the very basis of work towards a better order. . . ." The board concluded...
...chances? American public opinion is now much healthier than it was twenty-five years ago. In spite of the crystallized sentiment against the Nazis, it is intent upon viewing all events through polarized glasses. It listens to newscasts with a silent admonition to discriminate in its belief. It reads of atrocities with a conscious effort not to get excited. It maintains a forced detachment from the affair...