Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...political pattern of the hemisphere remains that of international anarchy." The Latin American countries distrust the Colossus of the North. There is a latent conflict between Argentina and Brazil, an other between Chile and Peru. There is the old grudge between the U.S. and Argentina...
Post-War. Equally astringent are Spykman's remarks about the post-war world. "In the first world conflict of the 20th Century," he observes, "the United States won the war, but lost the peace. If this mistake is to be avoided, it must be remembered, once and for all, that the end of a war is not the end of the power struggle. . . . The interest of the United States demands not only victory in the war, but also continued participation in the peace...
...competition, in order not to conflict with the College's accelerated program, will be the shortest ever conducted, lasting only six weeks to the day and ending well before the final examination period begins...
...battles rage: only time will give the proper perspective for another "What Price Glory?." But the movies can clarify for the public the issues that lie behind the war. Besides producing entertainment, the films can justify their existence in wartime by giving visual representation to the crisis of the conflict, by presenting facts and not fiction, even in the most romantic and melodramatic of war films...
...British Government is still unable to realize the conflict between its selfish imperial interests and the necessity for defeating the Axis through the mobilization of all the democratic forces in the world. It has allowed men and women to die whose loyalty and potential contribution to the cause of freedom cannot be questioned...