Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...come to the U. S. Its form varied-there was determination to aid the Allies, determination to speed U. S. defense, determination to destroy whoever got in the way. There were casualties: >Dead was the politicos' alibi that "the country" could not grasp the issues of world conflict. Wrote steady-minded Columnist Ray Clapper from Kansas City...
...Pennsylvania clubwomen heard Clarence Streit urge the program of Federal Union. Argued Clarence Streit: The fate of democracy depends on the defeat of Hitler. He cannot probably be defeated without U. S. aid. Military preparedness is not enough; the only force the U. S. can quickly bring to the conflict is a moral and political power. Organizing the democracies in a federal union, with a guarantee that the German people would be admitted to this union when they retired to their frontiers and restored their basic rights as men, would help to upset the German Government from within, and enable...
...This gigantic conflict is only a phase ... of our revolution. It is the conflict of poor, numerous peoples who labor against starvers who ferociously cling to a monop oly of all riches and all gold on earth...
...doing nothing but fulfilling the pledges that he had given Hitler."Europe's innocent bystanders, small of stature and short of hope, anxiously wondered whether II Duce would as faithfully fulfill the pledges he now gave them: "Italy does not intend to bring other people into the conflict. Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey and Egypt will take notice. . . ." The British Ministry of Information commented: "The Axis Powers have been prodigal of such assurances in the pastas Norway, Denmark, Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg have learned to their...
...Editor Ansaldo, in addition to those of territorial aggrandizement, put forth a unique reason. "How could a people like ours, with all our energy, remain outside of a great contest like the present one, in which all the great peoples of Europe are participating? Italy must enter the conflict to keep abreast of the changing times. One of the most important reasons that is leading Italy into the war is the moral reason...