Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nathaniel Peffer, professor, at Columbia University, denied that there was a "middle ground between neutrality and war," and proposed a "do-nothing policy as the one chance for peace." Turning to the Far-Eastern conflict he said that only military force could stop Japan...
Whether it is desirable to have students in college concentrate in journalism is open to argument. Courses in this field would be almost certain to conflict in some way with the English Department, and might even be placed officially under its aegis. But to find students sufficiently mature to be able to study journalism without previous college background would be difficult. Good journalism requires background; and it is therefore more adaptable as a graduate school function than as a college department. However, it should be said in dealing with this alternative that some additional English courses on elementary journalism...
...Ethiopian situation was a function of the rebirth of Germany," asserted the instructor. Always treated as the inferior Latin brothers of the French, Italy at first, in her desire to carve out a new "Roman Empire" in the Mediterranean, came into conflict with the German national expansion of similar character...
...wind up the Conference at once if possible, joined in drafting for this purpose a resolution in which the Conference was to adopt toward Japan an attitude of purely verbal ostracism with these words: "It is clear that the Japanese concept of the issues and interests involved in the conflict under reference is vitally different from the concept of most other nations in 'he world...
...Unfortunately, Japan and China have come into conflict and have resorted to hostilities. These hostilities have steadily increased in scope and intensity. Not only have they destroyed many Chinese and Japanese lives and much Chinese and Japanese property, but they have at some places taken and at many places endangered lives of nationals of other countries; they have destroyed property of nationals of other countries; they have disrupted communications; they have disturbed and interfered with the commerce of practically all nations that are engaged in international trade; and they have shocked and aroused the peoples of all nations...