Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...report was of necessity addressed. But he forgot the one great issue that transcends all others in 1944 Washington, D.C. Implacably Republican Senator Arthur Vandenberg blurted it out at week's end: "It would be very tragic if we had to detour into that sort of fundamental conflict between the Legislature and the Executive. But I see no insuperable conflict between them − unless the Fourth-Term dynasty has ideas...
...know that during the present crisis some in Congress have failed to grasp the requirement of our times, have clung to old formulas in a world of basic change; that some Republican Party leaders were slow, very slow, to appreciate the fundamental issues involved in the present armed conflict. I know that there have long been in the Republican Party forces which really believe that a political party exists solely for the advancement of private, selfish, material interests, and who would . . . turn back the clock of social progress; that negative and subversive elements flock to the party out of power...
...main the conflict is between the Black theory, which can be oversimplified as the intent of Congress should prevail as the will of the people, and the Frankfurter line, which is that courts and ad ministrative bodies (i.e., the law) are supreme. In this case the Black-Douglas line prevailed again, in that the Court dealt itself out as the final arbiter of an economic controversy, leaving the solution of such things to a due process of society...
...Japan will present moderate terms of settlement at the end of the conflict," he said, enlarging on his "no unreasonable ambitions" theme. He implied that his country was driven to war. Most of the land which Japan is acquiring he classed as "all expense, no remuneration...
...Pope observed that mankind had lost its way to the manger of Bethlehem, expressed the hope that the way might be found again before another Christmas comes. He said: "Ruins all over the world are increasing. Humanity is suffering and we all see this conflict degenerating into something more and more terrible. Reason and spirit seem to be darkened throughout the world. Christ only can deliver humanity. . . . To work, dearest brothers, do not stand idle. Let us start the reconstruction of the world...