Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...greatest danger to the peace lies with this increasing emphasis on sheer economic and military power. A disagreement on German economic reconstruction, the collision over American aid to Greece and Turkey, and the enervating process of finding a suitable peace treaty all point up a short-sighted conflict of material interests which is ultimately more dangerous than a difference over political theories. Ideological name calling will hardly lead to a third world war, but the intense and ultimate clash of interests and ambitions must be resolved if peace can be secured...
...save in brief tactical moments. Did his outburst mean that the fanatics of the Kremlin were condemning not only the peaceful part of the world, but the patient Russian people, exhausted by years of dictatorship and permanent economic depression, to World War III? Only the Kremlin knew. Certainly, more conflict lay immediately ahead at U.N. This week, the Assembly's steering committee voted (over strenuous Russian objection) to add George Marshall's new proposals to the working agenda. Without objection from the U.S., the committee agreed that Vishinsky's resolution on "warmongers" should be debated...
...domestic issue was discrimination in the shape of quota systems and Jim Crow facilities. What would ordinarily have amounted to a simple conflict of attitude between white delegates became complicated by the easily exploitable character of the entire affair for such agitation groups as Young Progressive Citizens of America and American Youth for Democracy. Negro delegates found themselves the focus of solicitous attentions. They were urged not to "back down." Only the counter-efforts of interested liberals from both North and South finally gained Negro support for give-and-take...
Through its various economic and social agencies, the UN can do much to lay the foundations for a world community. But when the member nations still retain the power to enter into armed conflict, advancements can mean little. World government must not follow these functional developments, but precede them. The UN can study, debate, recommend; it cannot legislate, inspect, enforce...
...smilingly throw in their hands. At the same time, any talk of reorganizing the U.N. without Russian membership is decidedly unrealistic. The U.N. without Russia would meet the same disaster that befell the League of Nations without the United States. The important issues of the day are those involving conflict among the U.S., Britain, and Russia. While it may be too much to expect that the U.N. should resolve these conflicts, if must at least be able to live with them. Otherwise, Finishing Meadows will join Geneva as just another tourist attraction...