Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Laval, like all French politicians, had his politique, and Laval's politique was cooperation with Italy to keep Germany behind the Rhine and the Brenner. But that policy came into conflict with Great Britain's desire to keep Italy weak in the Mediterranean, and with the French people's dislike of fascism, whether German or Italian...
...Japanese were furious. They pasted anti-U. S. handbills in the streets, hired coolies to demonstrate. Both the Army and Navy spokesmen declared Japan grievously insulted. Newspapers screamed. But Colonel Peck wisely held his position, realizing that the conflict would soon degenerate into a petty hunt for lost face. It soon...
...this view Psychiatrist Abraham Myerson of Harvard entered a strong demurrer. "It is not true, in my opinion," wrote he, "that excessive drinking springs mainly from neurosis, psychosis or conflict." As proof, Dr. Myerson pointed to the fact that women and Jews, two groups which have "their full share" of mental disorders, have a very small percentage of alcoholism. Their temperance rests on "social tradition and social pressure." There would be "universal horror and social condemnation," said Dr. Myerson, if Radcliffe girls went out on wholesale benders like "lusty, gusty Harvard men." The Jews, he continued, "have always lived...
...always insisted on standing uncommitted on the side lines of the European conflict, until a menace to our own interests compelled us to intervene. We long ago realized that the best and cheapest way of assuring our own security was to encourage other nations to fight for their own security, and when there was doubt about their ability to do so to assist them with finance and, if necessary, with arms." The U. S. does not aspire to a position of world responsibility and power; its desire is still for isolation without responsibility...
...whether or not the sentiment for peace grows in China, a Chungking armistice would not mean the end of the Far Eastern conflict. The last flanking movements in the three-year-old War in China had become the first forays of the Battle of the Eastern Empire...