Word: block
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attempt to set up states in Europe primarily as a balance of power and a block against Communist Russia will result in the same mess that came out of our first World War. The return to power of the old reactionary groups in Europe can never contribute to the establishment of a safe, secure, prosperous world...
This week one column of Vatutin's army, rolling south, was within 100 miles of Mariupol on the Sea of Azov, thereby threatening to block the Wehrmacht's retreat from Rostov. There is a chance that before spring the Wehrmacht may lose all of the rich Donets basin west to the Dnieper River-the last natural defense line inside Russia...
Another danger, soberly noted Britain's New Statesman and Nation, is that if the United Nations are permitted to split into their component blocks after the war, "then quite obviously ... an imperial America, conscious of its new strength, will seek to dominate; a proud Britain, fearing a greater rival, will jealously watch every American advance; a suspicious Russia, finally disillusioned about the hope of cooperating with the capitalist host, will concentrate on the organization of power within her frontiers, and a renascent China, potentially more powerful than any other block, will seek to develop her limitless resources without incurring...
Beardsley Ruml set out to crowbar the biggest stumbling block now in the way of his plan: the plausible-sounding objection that the Treasury would "lose" a year's income if a year's taxes were "forgiven." Not so, said Businessman-Banker Ruml in a letter to Kansas Congressman Frank Carlson: the Treasury would, if anything, collect more money with pay-as-you-go than without it. The Ruml reasoning...
...Principal aims of the I.F.W.A. (55 West 42nd St., Manhattan) are 1) "to begin at once preparation for a world organization," 2) to aid Europe's Underground, 3) to block agents and activities of the Axis in Latin America. Honorary board (chairman: Mrs. J. Borden Harriman) includes Mayor LaGuardia, Raymond Gram Swing, Harold Ickes, Viscount Cecil, Thomas Mann, Dorothy Thompson...