Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cost in Money. Now after 28 months of war, its casualty list was still small (173,238 in 27 months). But its concept of the conflict as a dollar war was coming fantastically true. This week Manhattan's Tax Institute, Inc. estimated that by next year World War II will have cost the Axis and Allies a trillion dollars.* According to the Tax Institute, the war is currently costing the Allies $150 billion a year-$410 million a day. The Axis is now spending about $50 billion, but gets more for its money because of forced labor, currency manipulation...
Unconditional surrender is an American idea dating from the U.S. Civil War, a conflict in which one side or the other had to give in completely. Europe offers no U.S. parallel. "No European nation or coalition of nations is in a position effectively to accept the unconditional surrender of another nation, that is, to manage and govern it, unless in fact it is prepared to annex...
...Republic's action in demanding that the U.S. enter the war was solely the work of its editors. We believed that Hitler intended to conquer the world; that as matters stood ... he had a good chance of succeeding, and that the U.S. ought to get into the conflict before Great Britain was knocked out. . ...We think now that we were absolutely right in our decision...
...area of agreement." He would probably be willing to accept most of Mr. Jones's proposals for streamlining the State Department and for a beneficent democratic "dynamism" in foreign affairs. But Professor Becker quietly and unobtrusively suggests that an international economic order presupposes an abatement of the social conflict inside nations. No doubt Mr. Jones would go along with Carl Becker on this. But neither author can tell how the trick is to be turned. Neither can they tell how to prevent civil war from becoming world...
Adler says flatly that there can be no peace between sovereign states; at best there can be nothing more than an uneasy "truce," a period of jockeying and diplomatic cheating preliminary to the next outbreak of armed conflict. Mr. Lippmann is Adler's particular semantic bete noire, for Mr. Lippmann is always using the word "peace" when Adler thinks he should be speaking of "truce" or "armistice." The average reader may think this a matter of verbal quibble, for Mr. Lippmann uses the word peace with the full knowledge that there are kinds and degrees of peace...