Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end the Communist ex-ministers beat a tactical retreat, told their followers: "Personal arms must be surrendered. . . . The Resistance must do everything in its power to maintain order . . . avoid any conflict with Allied armies." But 15,000 Belgians with Hammer-&-Sickle flags marched through Brussels streets and continued to shout: "A bas Pierlot!" (Down with Pierlot...
...this stubborn course is pursued, it can only result once again, as in 1919, in a disastrous conflict between the President and the Congress. To that I will never be a party...
...further doings. There were reports of a new training plan for the Chinese Army. There were reports of more supplies to be sent into China over the Burma-Ledo road when it was finished. Backgrounding all the rumors were the delicate political situation in China, the conflict of Chinese and British interests in southeast Asia, and the pressure of Communists in and out of China. Army men, who knew about Chinese-speaking Joe Stilwell's blunt forthrightness, reflected that his job called for the diplomacy of a super-Eisenhower...
...State Department feared, if Washington rumor was right, that a Pan-American conference might take up the painful question of Argentina. This the Latin Americans denied vehemently. Most of them had withdrawn their ambassadors from Argentina. Beyond this action, they wanted no part in the U.S.-Argentine conflict, which they consider a U.S. worry...
...This Administration has lived on conflict. They plan it that way." He read aloud from one of the President's Executive Orders, which said that the Secretary of Agriculture and the War Food Administrator "shall each have authority to exercise any and all of the powers vested in the other." Said Dewey: "Mr. Roosevelt gives two men the same powers and then turns them loose to fight about...