Word: conflict
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Violence & Faith. To affable, middle-aged Protestant Bishop Ruesga the incident was just an incident in the continuous, often violent conflict between Mexico's 20,000,000 Catholics and 180,000 Protestants. To the Catholic Archbishop of Mexico, Luis María Martínez, the tragedy at Santiago Yeche deserved Christian condemnation. Said he: "The Catholic faith is defended and extended through prayer, instruction and good example. . . . The Christian spirit is the spirit of charity, and charity is sweet and prudent...
...Roots of Conflict. Then came World War I. Britain, with her back to the wall, acted to safeguard the Middle East, its highway of Empire, and to strike at Germany through Turkey. It promised Arab leaders independence from the Turks and self-government through most (the Arabs now say all) of the Middle East. At the same time Britain sought to rouse world Jewry (including German Jews) to support the Allied cause and weaken Germany. In his famous Declaration, Foreign Secretary Arthur (later Lord) Balfour informed Lord Rothschild, the prominent British Zionist, that "His Majesty's Government view with...
...Conflicting Policy. The airways conflict between U.S. and British policy began almost two years ago at the first International Civil Aviation Conference in Chicago. There Britain, fearful of U.S. air superiority, successfully fought against...
...most specific economic conflict is in the field of collective bargaining: planned production means planned wages, and the results of collective bargaining, under which both management and labor are seeking their own maximum advantage, will not usually fit in with a comprehensive system of wage control. Wootton would thus make arbitration compulsory, with government decisions given the authority of a court...
Perhaps in November. Hitler's ghost might wake the Hörselberg with sardonic laughter at the competition between the victors for Germany's favor. Yet so long as the Big Power conflict existed, competition for control of the most important nation in Europe was inevitable. If the game had to be played, why should the West, which held better cards, lose...