Word: belief
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could the U.S., based on a belief in equality, accept its power without aggressively forcing its faith on others...
Foggy Future. British policy, said the Times, is motivated by the belief that the divided Continental nations can never be a match for Germany, especially if she manages to enlist the sympathy of Russia, the U.S., or Britain. The British answer: close cooperation between the same three powers "if an end is now to be made of the German menace and Europe is to be resettled on a lasting basis...
...tomb and arise," said Kansas' William Allen White. "Men . . . slowly are giving up old ideas, old prejudices, slowly are coming to the realization that it is necessary in politics, in society, in economic organization, to preserve the dignity of man, the dignity of all men. . . . This belief in the dignity of man as an individual was a latent faith in men's hearts even while they basked in a civilization they did not intelligently appreciate or quite believe in-a faith that in due time should remake the world...
...Terms. Democracy is going down to the tomb. The need for world fellowship, bred in terror, is furnishing a binder to hold men together. The belief in the dignity of man, of all men, is in itself a primary protection against the perfidies of the war of nerves, a check against the regimentation of domestic life, a guarantee against life's waste in war. It is the bond between the drawings of the engineer and the unformed hope of the man in the street; it is the force that overcomes the bickerings of allies, the conflicts of national prestige...
Under McCarthy, Yank has grown--especially out of his belief that Yank should be edited solely for the enlisted men, disregarding the taste and know-all of its editors. He scraped off the polish and made it, as he frankly admits, "realistic and corny...