Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wars can be prevented just as surely as they are provoked and therefore we who fail to prevent them must share in guilt for the dead . . . We must not forget that the roots of conflict flourish in the faults and failures of those who seek peace just as surely as they take shape from the diseases and designs of aggressors . . . We cannot feign innocence through indifference or neglect of struggles that bring on wars...
...maintain its soil. An exploited people pass on their suffering to the land. Low prices, disease and wars are all important causes. Things get on a hand-to-mouth or year-to-year basis . . . Where farmers can take a long view of production, there are very few instances of conflict between those practices that give most return and those that maintain the soil...
...still searching last week for some way to end the conflict. Swedish Count Folke Bernadotte was named as a mediator between Jews and Arabs. The U.S. pressed for a Security Council resolution that would recognize a "threat to the peace and breach of the peace" in Palestine, and pave the way for sanctions to enforce a truce. Britain balked. Unless King Abdullah's Arab Legion spilled over into territory marked for Jewish control by the U.N. partition plan, Britain apparently was not going to try to check him. On British insistence, the Security Council voted for another sanctionless truce...
...basic objectives "have not altered appreciably since the turn of the century." The objectives, according to Cleveland, have been to 1) discourage organized labor; 2) minimize the taxes on industry and managerial compensation; 3) oppose Government regulation of industry; 4) encourage public aid to industry (if it does not conflict with the first three objectives...
Billy is one of 42 eyewitnesses whose reports on the Battle of Gettysburg are the chief feature of this book. Historians have long since figured out just what happened at that decisive conflict, but Editors Miers and Brown have added a new wrinkle to the old subject by showing what the battle looked like to those who fought it, or watched it from ringside seats...