Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harrison, though new to American films, has made an enviable record in Hitchcok's British ventures and the recent "Blithe Spirit." His portrayal of the King is fascinating. Alternating between rugged defense of His Divine Right and a genuine desire to westernize his backward land, the monarch enters a conflict of wits with the schoolmarm who cannot countenance some of the bizarre practices that are placed beyond "progress...
...paper they are written on. Portuguese are kept in ignorance of some of the most important world news. Salazar will not let any paper print news about Russia or about Communist activity anywhere. No Portuguese paper mentioned the recent wave of strikes in the U.S. nor any other labor conflict. The United Nations is barely mentioned, because Portugal is not a member. Since there is sometimes courtesy, if not honor, among dictators, Salazar has permitted no mention of the controversy between U.N. and Caudillo Francisco Franco...
...would also be open to the Anglo-American-controlled sectors of Germany). Britain and the U.S. will not only do their utmost to raise these nations' standards of living (i.e., increase their fighting strength), but will promise them prompt military aid in the event of their coming into conflict with an expanding U.S.S.R. Simultaneously, intensive anti-Soviet propaganda must be carried on throughout Europe, and extended, by radio, into the U.S.S.R. itself. "Our ultimate aim [in Europe] should be to free all the states of central and eastern Europe and the Balkans...
Truman's position, under pressure from the Zionists, boiled down to conflict with his on-the-spot ally in an area where the U.S. had vital interests it was unable or unwilling to protect by using its own military power...
...thought was in their interests. Neither Morozov nor the Major understood. Even after the sixth vodka they didn't understand. These Russian counterparts of Britain's Indian Civil Service saw things with eyes so different that they could be worried only by the possibilities of a major conflict with America. When brought right down to it, they were frustrated because the Poles, many of them, did not seem to appreciate the self-sacrifice and generosity which the Russians displayed in spending so much time and effort showing the Poles how to run their government, their army, their secret...