Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under "the threat of a Russian-American war arising out of conflict in the borderland . . . the British, the French and all the other Europeans see that they are placed between the hammer and the anvil." Their real aim now, said Lippmann, is to extricate themselves from the Russian-American conflict...
Ideological conflict, manifest in divergent opinions concerning the proper attitude toward, Russia and in the debate between proponents of "planned prosperity" and advocates of "individual initiative," will be sharply outlined at Harvard this fall--especially during the appearance of Henry Wallace...
Tomorrow, the first full day in residence, like the last day will be devoted to tests and exams, such as language placement and English A anticipatory. University officials warned the men who are eligible for the English exam to register today so that there would not be a conflict tomorrow...
...Hoover, the only living ex-President of the United States, mulled over the cause & effect of World War II in the American magazine last week: "We never would have been attacked by the Japanese if we had not given them provocation. ... If we had kept out of the immediate conflict, we could have put our sword down on the table, with our economic resources intact, and made a decent peace when the time for peacemaking came. I never believed Britain was in danger of defeat. When Germany attacked Russia, it made a British victory possible...
Orthodox Marxism holds that society operates in accordance with determined economic laws; this view minimizes the personal element in history. However, the Soviet State that has actually evolved is a dictatorship rooted in the principle of infallible personal leadership. This irreconcilable conflict of ideas prevents Soviet thinkers from agreeing on a definition of what the Soviet State is which leaves the philosophers in the position of being ordered to "militantly advance the spirit" of a thing they cannot define...