Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Leaders of Haganah submitted a memorandum to the Anglo-American Commission of Enquiry which said, "We have declared war against the hostile policies of the British government towards us. But we have no animosity either towards the English people or toward the British Common-wealth of Nations. . . . The only conflict that exists between us was created by the British government when it repudiated the Mandate...
Both boys are in love with the same beautiful blonde (Joan Caulfield). She admires Fred's hoofing, as who does hot? But no lady could be expected to hold out against Bing's crooning. Married, singer and girl plunge into a peculiar marital conflict. Bing makes his living by buying & selling successful nightclubs. He plainly enjoys his work and does well enough at it to provide the little woman with striking Edith Head gowns and the smartest interiors that Paramount's art department can whip together. But Joan is terribly depressed by it all. Bing...
...sense this conflict of loyalties which makes it so difficult to deal with even the best-intentioned of men when the racial conflict is in question," wrote Vincent Sheean in the New York Herald-Tribune last week. the acceptance of the social arrangement under a code of "white supremacy," then, went beyond the cranky rantings of Paul Bumpus, circuit Attorney General, whose pleas for hangings were on the grounds that "the trials at Nuernberg were not going to furnish enough victims," or Lynn Bomar, Tennessee's Commissioner of Safety, who raised violent objection to the addressing of Negro defendants...
...words it is the position of "patience as well as firmness." The potential reward is Russian respect for U.S. democracy, freedom of choice for the small nations and in some distant future, perhaps, the collapse of Russia's unnatural totalitarian scheme. This position implies a political conflict which can conceivably be waged and won without recourse to war. The policy risks war-as any international policy does-but the risk is not the same thing as inevitability...
...very glad to read in the newspapers two days ago that my friend President Truman had expressed his interest and sympathy with this great design. There is no reason why a regional organization of Europe should in any way conflict with the world organization of the United Nations...