Word: burdening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that by sheer luck "America and Asiatic Russia, the greatest continental powers on earth, are united. . . ." What "united" has meant so far, and what it ought to mean if power politics is not to send the freshmen children of last week's freshmen to war again, formed the burden of another professor's plea. In support of a World Government now, he brought up the example of Winston Churchill's offer of union to France in 1940, and quoted George Washington on another Union, once problematical...
This hitch in plans was forced onto the scene by the present overcrowded condition of University dining halls which have already accepted the additional burden of feeding military units now at Harvard. It was also unanimously agreed that restaurants in the Square could not adequately care for the influx of such a large group...
...quarter a week is a lot of money. Before plunging into decisions to sign a twenty-five cent a week pledge, students should reflect carefully. If their conclusions are that any money they lend the government will aid in prosecuting the war, that Roosevelt should shoulder all the burden, and that their own troubles come first--then let them think carefully before giving monetary aid to their country. They should be applauded for their courage to stand up for their own rights. They will probably still be doing so when the Japs land at San Francisco and the Nazis...
...Allied effort in World War II is directed mainly by two of the 28 United Nations: the U.S. and Great Britain, in the persons of Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill. Russia in one sector and China in another have major shares of the burden, but they have very vague shares in Allied direction...
...Lend-Lease deal signed last week with Russia, like those with Treat Britain and China, provides that after the war the repayment plan "shall be such as not to burden commerce between the two countries but to promote mutually advantageous economic relations between them and the betterment of world-wide economic relations." It shall be directed "to the expansion ... of production, employment and the exchange and consumption of goods ... to the elimination of all forms of discriminatory treatment in international commerce, and to the reduction of tariffs and other trade barriers...