Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have gone as far as is consistent either with law, with sentiment or with security. ... It [the war] is not purely a world conflict between tyranny and freedom. The Anglo-Russian alliance has dissipated that illusion...
...where he was dean of the diplomatic corps, George Waller lived a life of simplicity and devotion. He was equally devoted to his own country and to the one to which he was accredited, and by keeping the interest of the two countries always in harmony he avoided any conflict of loyalties. The Grand Duchess' No.1 adviser was Foreign Minister Joseph Bech; Adviser Bech's No.1 adviser was George Waller...
...hear it from men whose actions stamp them as dedicated to all-out effort does it strike you as odd and sad that this token word has taken root everywhere. . . . This arsenal of democracy, this strongest of all industrial nations, continues to view with shuddering abhorrence the world of conflict in which it finds itself. Confronted with the bloodlust of Hitler's Germany, it still wishes it could continue to dream about colored bathtubs. . . ." Stultified by this spirit, the U.S. is not merely falling short; it is failing spectacularly, in nine different ways and nine different places. The editors...
...some perhaps distant tomorrow the world will learn what happened last week in the Battle of Russia. For the whole week the official communiques of both sides told only of heavy conflict without changes of position. But no American or British reporter, not even the British military mission, got near the front. The world was left to guess what had happened in the vicious fighting. The world will obviously learn the outcome long before it learns what...
...forces would clash in the Atlantic. But no observer could claim that U.S. public opinion was prepared for a struggle of the magnitude of the one that was in the making. It was a great question whether the U.S. public would not dismiss, as a manufactured "incident," the first conflict that came...