Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British Government was torn between its moral obligation to the Jews and its material dependence on the Arabs in the Middle and Near East. Observed the London Times: "[This is] a conflict not of right with wrong, but of right with right." Prodded by President Truman's blunt request for the immediate admission of 100,000 Jews to Palestine, Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin conferred with Reuven Zaslani, chief of the Jewish Agency, and with the new Arab League's Secretary-General Abdel Rahman Azzam Bey. Afterward, both breathed fire. Said Zaslani: in the event of bloodshed, "the Jews...
First to Fight. Longer than most men, he had seen and feared the conflict that brought him back to Washington five years ago. Sooner than most, he had learned that there was no passive defense against aggression. As Herbert Hoover's Secretary of State in 1931, he had spoken out almost alone against the Japs' first thrust at China. From then on he had refused to recognize Axis conquest, even when it was unpopular to refuse...
Harry Truman flew back from a weekend in Independence, Mo., to try to straighten things out. He already had a hint-in the Senate Finance Committee's rejection of his proposal to raise unemployment compensation to $25 a week for 26 weeks-of how basic was the conflict...
...forces, they thought, would be dependent on guerrilla aid, and this dependence could be translated into political recognition. When surrender came without an invasion, some Shanghai Communists wanted to seize the city. Just after the Moscow treaty was announced, Yenan headquarters ordered the Shanghai Communists to avoid armed conflict with Chiang's authority...
...became a national religion under Constantine (who went forth "to slaughter his enemies inspired by the ecstatic vision of a blazing cross") through the Crusades (where "it had become firmly established that fire and rapine were acceptable means of propagating the faith") to the history of modern colonization ("unequal conflict between Christian might and pagan right...