Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...public and most Congressmen simply do not understand the time element in industrial production of munitions. They must be told again and again until they do understand why it takes time to build tanks, guns and planes. They must realize that wars are won in factories years before the conflict in the field...
...Rumanian mine. Proponents of the Nazi-Communist war pointed with delighted alarm to the gathering of 330,000 German troops far north in Norway against the Finnish border, to which Russia has a right of way. But it seemed highly dubious that either Germany or Russia wanted that conflict...
Foreign Office Spokesman Yakichiro Suma chimed in with the assertion that the U. S. is "taking step after step in the wrong direction, which might precipitate her into the vortex of armed conflict." Spokesman Suma paid his respects to a suggestion by Publisher Roy Wilson Howard that the U. S. send a commission to Japan to improve U. S.-Japanese relations. Such a commission could be effective only if the two Governments were in agreement on fundamentals, said Yakichiro Suma, "and they have no mutual grounds any more...
...which is the right and obligation of the university itself to pursue its high ideals unhampered and unembarrassed by conduct on the part of any of its members which tends to damage its reputation. . . . Those whose convictions are of such a character as to bring their conduct in open conflict with the university's freedom to go its way toward its lofty aim should, in ordinary self-respect, withdraw of their own accord from university membership. . . . No reasonable person would insist upon remaining a member of a church, for instance, who spent his time in publicly denying and denouncing...
...about academic freedom as it concerns the university teacher. Here he does indeed admit that much freedom exists in some measure; but he would have us believe that it is subordinate to something which he calls the university's freedom. He urges those whose convictions bring their conduct into conflict with the university's freedom "to withdraw of their own accord from university membership...