Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Moscow excommunicated Marshal Tito (TIME, July 12), the world got a tantalizing intimation that conflicting personal and national interests can be stronger than Marxist theories as enforced by the Kremlin. Last week, historic documents on the Tito-Stalin conflict became available. Some hours after Andrei Vishinsky arrived in Belgrade for the Danube conference, pamphlets brought by his staff from Russia were shoved into Belgrade mailboxes, slipped under doors at night. They contained three letters from Moscow to Tito, written months before the public break. Last week, the Yugoslav Communist Party prepared to distribute a pamphlet containing Tito...
Therefore, says Earth, the church should not prematurely shoot off its ammunition in the present conflict. Let the church-in Hungary and elsewhere-not adhere to "principles" but to its Lord to find the time to speak and to remain silent...
...conflict in Palestine, land of refuge for Jews, had created a refugee problem of its own. Panic-stricken over Israeli military successes, 300,000 Arabs had fled from their Palestine homes. With no food and few possessions of their own, they now live in refugee camps among Arab neighbors. Arab governments want to send them back...
...Czech officials insist there will not be a war. So do the Soviets, and I think they will be very careful to avoid the responsibility for war . . . There does, however, seem to be some Czech urgency in preparing for a possible conflict. . . Czech heavy industry is now working mostly for the Russians, producing not finished articles but certain parts that will fit into armament...
Earlier in the conference, Chile's Benjamin Cohen, Assistant Secretary General in Charge of Public Information, had said the same, with fewer dots and more dash. He lashed out at newspapermen for "distorting" U.N. news and giving a "fragmentary picture," put the blame on a "crisis-conflict" type of journalism. Secretary General Trygve Lie was gentler. "I wouldn't go as far as that," said Lie, diplomatically. "It depends a good deal on the individual paper and country...