Word: commented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Comment: "If boundaries are unnatural barriers to the movement of men, trade and investment, their maintenance inevitably becomes subject to attack...
...Comment: "Growth in itself is not something inherently evil. It is the peculiar genius of the Constitution of the U.S. that it could and did operate as an open-end instrument, bringing more territory and more peoples into federal union. That conception should not now be renounced. . . . All national groups [tend] to attribute self-righteousness to [their present] mood. This tendency, which violates Christ's precepts, creates much ill-will and is itself a major contributing cause...
...Comment: "If Europe is to be reorganized as a federated Commonwealth . . . [perhaps] the present greater Germany should be disintegrated into several states . . . [even though the Germans] might prefer, through maintaining themselves as a single state, to dominate the Union...
...Comment: "Such promises" can be "a serious obstacle to durable peace," as were Wilson's "promises of 'self-determination.' " Europe's "old system of many sovereign states . . . has constantly and inevitably bred...
...Comment: Quite inadequate, because "the U.S. has in the past . . . treated our foreign trade as though it were of no legitimate concern to anyone but ourselves." Unless Congress shows it has changed its attitude, this point "will be received with grave and warranted skepticism...