Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Torment (Oxford Films) and A Cage of Nightingales (Lopert), both European films, tell in schoolboy terms of an old, bitter, incurable conflict: the free, self-responsible, self-governing spirit v. authority...
...followed a program of self interest. However, the power of the atom, and the vastness of American industrial wealth place the United States in a unique position. This nation alone can afford to gamble on the chance that the world can be led to understanding rather than forced to conflict...
...state." By throwing this idea upon the table as a last futile barrage against the Lilienthal confirmation, Taft shocked many people, even his Republican colleagues. It is clear, however, that the Taft proposal to squelch the American atomic plan is a type of thinking characteristic of the present power conflict between the United States and Russia...
First Cossacks, then Negroes. Frenchmen are so tired of conflict that even conservative De Gaulle talks of making France a balance between the U.S. and Russia. Said Marc Leroy, a bank clerk: "What a pity we cannot transport France to some place which is not in the middle. I would choose America. But," he added hastily, "I do not want to choose...
...colonies nor navy nor army nor territorial ambitions. We are today's arch-isolationists." However, unlike old-line U.S. isolationists, Europeans could not afford to say "Let them fight it out among themselves." Even a devout Communist forgot himself sufficiently to tell a TIME correspondent last week: "A conflict between you and Russia would be disaster for Italy. We'd be occupied by both of you, first by the Cossacks, then by Negroes...