Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people a great decision which will determine the fate of the United States-and of the world-for generations to come. There can be no middle ground here. We shall have to take the responsibility for world collaboration, or we shall have to bear the responsibility for another world conflict...
...overall, the movie does not come off. Wilde's novel was a fiercely arrogant if troubled fable about the conflict between the individualist and society, between ethics and esthetics. The film lacks almost entirely this basic tension; it lacks also the moral courage and anguish, the satiated melancholy and the intellectual intensity which pervaded...
With Haile Selassie. "The President stressed communications between the United States and Ethiopia and said he hoped, with improvements of communications, particularly by air, the two countries would come to know each other better." Postwar access to Ethiopian air and airports was recently a point of conflict between the U.S. and Britain, was settled (by agreement between Ethiopia and Britain) in the U.S.'s favor...
...Syria and Lebanon, whose Foreign Ministers were both present, were deep in conflict with France. They wanted complete liquidation of the French mandate, partially abrogated in 1943. They had sent a demand to this effect to the Big Three at Yalta, were still awaiting a reply. Meanwhile Britain, formerly opposed to continued French rule in Syria and Lebanon, was said to have switched to support of France. Arab solidarity in Cairo might mean full independence for the two states, but France and Britain would have to be reckoned with. The stake of the British Empire was emphasized when Prime Minister...
...only hurt the cause of the Southern Negro," according to Edstrom, "if you holler about social equality. That," he explains, "is a thing you can't legislate. I'm afraid that if we don't approach the problems in the right way," he warns, "we're going to have conflict, bloody conflict." The Courier-Journal has consistently campaigned for equal political and economic opportunities for Negroes, supporting several of their candidates in state and local elections...