Word: breakups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...those who had sniped at Harry Hopkins for his disciple's relation to Roosevelt, his overwhelming influence in the "Palace Guard." Truman had continued to use Hopkins' knowledge and counsel. It was Hopkins, more than anyone else, who saved the San Francisco conference from a precipitous breakup (TIME, June 1). But Harry Truman also knew that Harry Hopkins would eventually leave. He wrote warmly in reply ("I know how much your tireless energy had to do with the carrying on of the war in all parts of the globe"), and that was that...
...Breakup of all large land holdings into small farms...
Hunger for Magic. If there is one thing above all that can be isolated as the cause of fascism, says Flynn, it is the growth of an unwieldy public debt. In Italy, shortly after the peninsula was unified for the first time since the breakup of the Roman Empire, popular education and the modern newspaper gave Italians hope that abundance might be wrung from the bony ridges of their ancient land. But neither the schoolteachers nor the journalists could tell individual Italians how they might create that abundance. And so the first great prerequisite for fascism appeared: a wide spread...
...sense, the battle has been raging ever since the breakup of medieval Christendom. Before Tudor times, Englishmen believed in the Catholic version of the landmass theory. They even tried to climb onto the Continent by attempting to conquer and rule France in the Hundred Years' War. But ever since Christendom split into Protestant and Catholic wings, Britons have been opposed to European unification. Marlborough, Pitt and Wellington have all fought to keep a balance of power on the European continent, and the small trading nations-The Netherlands, the Scandinavian countries-have usually welcomed British intercession. When madmen like...
They agreed to agree on the postwar shape of Europe: on the means and extent of control in Germany; on the enforced breakup of the Greater Reich, first by restoring Austria's independence; on the interests to prevail in the Balkans, where both Russia and Britain have great stakes; and, by silent implication, on control of Russia's European borderlands (eastern Poland, Bessarabia, the Baltics). And they agreed to agree on a postwar association of nations, otherwise undefined, "for the maintenance of international peace and security...