Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...skills of modern civilization have outrun the moral and spiritual resources for their direction and control." Speaking of world Protestantism, Van Dusen said: "Inevitably, global war put the World Christian Movement to its severest test. What possibility was there of maintaining a world program of expansion amidst world-severing conflict? . . . What reality could be preserved by a universal spiritual fellowship, by a World Community...
...Zionism was absorbed in its own internal conflict. Massive, 72-year-old Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise, who founded the Zionist Organization of America in 1898, announced: "I do not, I cannot withdraw from Zionism, but I withdraw from . . . the Zionist Organization of America." Dr. Wise's grievances were threefold: last month's World Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland, had been a "collection of personal hatreds and rancors and private ambitions"; it had immoderately rebuked both Britain and the U.S.; it had ousted Dr. Wise's good friend Dr. Chaim Weizman from the presidency of the W.Z.O...
...quarreling again; the year's news was dominated by the opposed efforts of Russia's Molotov and America's Byrnes to reap or hold advantage at the peace tables. The women, who wanted peace in their time and their sons' time, anxiously watched as the conflict over lands and lives and faiths took an intricate, peculiarly masculine shape in treaty clauses, commas and semicolons...
...Inevitable Conflict." But money had something to do with it. Many a doctor hated the thought of haggling over fees with the Government. Under "Britain's 35-year-old National Health Insurance system, haggling has been chronic: British dentists are currently in a fee row with the Ministry of National Insurance (they demand ?9 9s. for a set of false teeth v. the Ministry's offer of ?7), and insurance physicians recently won a raise (to 15s. a patient) only after long dispute...
While the B.M.A. girded itself for "the inevitable conflict," most Britons put their money on Bevan. The B.M.A. was plainly divided (besides the 18,972 who had voted to dicker, 14,525 had not voted at all). Bevan promptly announced that he would proceed to negotiate with other medical societies (e.g., the Royal College of Physicians). If he could negotiate satisfactory terms, many a doctor would come into the plan, B.M.A. or no B.M.A. Said the London Times: "If it [ B.M.A. ] persists in refusing to attach as much importance to the general election of 1945 as it does...