Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...carried the banner 'Democracy,' the other 'Occidental Civilization.' Fundamentally there was no conflict between the two slogans, since neither meant anything concrete. Each one, however, served as the common bond between a number of discordant faiths polarized by the two extreme sects, Communists and Fascists, which it turned out later cared nothing respectively for either democracy or occidental civilization. ... In an emotional situation of this sort, propaganda becomes childishly easy...
...Roosevelt ... in due course will do more. But the time to speak of it was not yet." When to speak? What to say? What to do? These were the enormous questions which the U. S. people along with their President pondered last week. In U. S. opinion there was conflict, disunion. Yet there was an over-all unity of concern...
...this was no major conflict, but it was plain that Mussolini's waiting-for-Christmas policy would not work against the British. For anything he takes from them he will have to fight. To their scorn for Italy's passive game, Marshal Badoglio has a pat answer: they also serve who only stand and wait. The Allies thought it splendid of Italy to stay neutral last time until 1915, and then join them instead of the Kaiser. That released several French divisions for the first Battle of the Marne. Waiting again, Italy has again picked a winner...
...America's intervention in the European war in the way of mass deliveries of aircraft and other war materials cannot affect the outcome of this conflict. . . . Our opponents are going to lose the war because their military organizations are bad, their leadership worse and their conduct of the war, in many instances, disastrous...
...Relatively quiet during the last six months, the Arab-Jewish conflict in Palestine was stirred up again early in March when the British Government...