Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...less interesting and important than Volume I (TIME, Jan. 10, 1944), which described brilliantly the conflict between Latin and U.S. cultures as sensed by an uncommonly perceptive youth. But Santayana's extraordinary mind and masterly prose could not produce a dull or unimportant book. He writes about the great figures of his time the way other biographers write about eccentric family servants. And he writes about friends unknown to the world-Andrew Green, "Swelly" Bangs, Bob Barlow, Howard Gushing, Howard Sturgis, Bob Potter, Lawrence Butler-as if they were philosophers whose minds he studied as he studied those...
...Conflicts of interest and method in Europe had strained Big Three relations from the start. In the end, the deepest conflict, the determining test of those relations, and of the postwar security system founded on them, may come not in Europe but in Asia...
...This concept of 'end result,'" said Usher, "Is in conflict with the concept of unplanned social evolution, which has characterized the growth of society...
What kind of postwar Europe did the world really want? Until Europe itself and the remainder of the world faced that unfaced question, no plan for Germany could be either intelligent or complete. Europe was an area of power conflict, and the powers could not make up their minds on Germany, a key piece in the game, until their own future relations clarified. It was this dilemma that paralyzed the planners and robbed the Big Three's stern but incomplete Yalta agreement on Germany of any real meaning...
...expected that the charter would do the impossible-eliminate all strikes. But, said cautious Mr. Green, it should help substitute arbitration for conflict...