Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Polish Unreality Sirs: With a colossally characteristic disregard for reality, Poland's General Sikorski dares speak now of the reapportionment of Eastern European territory after the present conflict is over...
After six years of war, blockaded China is weaker economically and militarily than at any stage of the conflict with Japan. The country is in the throes of the worst inflation since the Sung Dynasty-in the Twelfth Century, just before the invasion of Genghis Khan, when rocketing prices in Peking would change between morning and evening. Malnutrition and privation are slowly undermining the vitality not only of the Army, but of the many intellectuals and younger office holders on whom China's future leadership largely depends. Inadequate material help from America and continued delay in the only quick...
More than a simple outcropping of Grundyism, this was the latest engage ment in an unending conflict between the Austin Legislature and the university, whose tower looks down on the State Capitol. The fact that the university has grown to be one of the four leading Southern institutions,* a big-time contributor of men, training and research to the U.S. war effort (TIME, Nov. 30), has not appeased the legislators. Many Texans find the Austin students effete: to the Aggies (Texas A. & M. College), for example, many strapping Austin characters are "tea-sippers." And the war between the politicos...
...jolt in the minds of those with whom he is cast." But since that day, our nation has come to know many things--the glitter and disillusionment of World War I, the shoddy decade of demoralization that followed demobilization, the years of leanness and social waste, the present conflict. As we have learned the lesson, so has Harvard realized that its most important duties are those of serving the national community, of jolting the national conscience, of fulfilling its larger responsibiliies...
...United Nations, a policy neither explicit nor commanding. Unassuring as to the post-war program of our nation, the policy of the United States has contributed to such inadequacy by failing to establish a central international organization to resolve peacefully disputes so easily magnified into issues for conflict. Senate Resolution 114, sponsored by Senators Ball, Hill, Burton and Hatch, now in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, would go far in remedying our "dry-crust" diplomacy...