Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spite of the fact that the French Army (including reserves) is now more than twice the size of the German, the French have never cottoned to this idea. France's population is only half as large as Germany's, and in a prolonged conflict she would ultimately need man power as well as money and arms. Worried French Governments have long urged the British Government to pledge unqualified support in case of war. Last week in a House of Commons debate on a $2,900,000,000 arms appropriation for the coming year, France got that pledge...
...stop smoking, said the editorial, it is doubtful that the drug nicotine alone produces fatigue. There is a "feeling to which an extraordinary number of people admit, that they smoke too much-that cigarets are a waste of money and so forth. . . . In sensitive men and women this mental conflict . . . may do much to take the edge off that zest for living which is supposedly normal." Prime cause of smokers' fatigue, concluded the Lancet, is not nicotine but "vague and subjective" feelings of guilt...
...contrast between the definite unanimity of feeling among the rank and file members in the two groups and the conflict in leadership was emphasized by Nixon...
...isolationist of the first water, genuinely believes the U. S. Army should be fitted to the minimum necessities of simple defense. Charles Edison's good friend, Assistant Secretary of War Louis Arthur Johnson, has the job of expanding it to a larger Roosevelt pattern, hence is in conflict with General Craig and Secretary of War Woodring, whom Mr. Johnson still hopes to replace...
...Americanism. Because she modeled her Russian Countess entirely too much on Lynn Fontanne's characterization, Norma Shearer is not so successful. Her Irene lacks the spontaneity of Gable's Harry Van. Yet with all its short-comings, "Idiot's Delight" is sustained by its immediacy of theme and powerful conflict of points of view. It is far above the average Hollywood production...