Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have reason to believe that the Mikado . . . has never felt unfriendly to the Western world . . . that the Pearl Harbor treachery was in conflict with the Emperor's concept of foreign policy. Therefore, it is argued, in Hirohito we might have a friend...
...Britons' concern with Europe and Soviet policy begins with the simple fact that their home is an island off the continent of Europe. But Britain also speaks for an Empire. There is, therefore, an historic, although not necessarily a dangerous, conflict between the landmass empire of Russia and the globe-girdling, sea-&-air-knit Empire of Britain. In the Middle East the land-empire and the sea-empire meet-and where they meet, there may always be friction...
This is no time in which to be working for plans that have no chance of being adopted except in the remote future. This is a time to be working for plans which do not radically conflict with the present ideas and desires of the people of the world for whom the plans are made...
...Preparations have now been practically completed. . . . Now at last we are ready to carry the war to the enemy, all overseas, thank God, with a power and force that we hope will bring this conflict to an early conclusion. But please remember that this phase is just about to begin...
...they do not want in Germany: > Said Winston Churchill last week (see p. 26): "The Nazi tyranny and Prussian militarism are the two main elements in German life which must be absolutely . . . rooted out if Europe and the world are to be spared a third and still more frightful conflict...