Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eisenhower-Dulles foreign policy, called the new policy "surely right." Wrote Lippmann: "The threatened Palestinian war is just the kind of war that the U.N. is designed to prevent. The U.N. recognizes in the veto provision the fact that if the great powers themselves are in direct conflict, the U.N. can do nothing more than attempt to conciliate. But where only small powers are involved, it is possible to limit if not to prevent war, provided the Big Five concur. Working through the U.N. . . . fixes the fact that the Soviet Union has a solemn responsibility for the prevention...
...characterized the conflict as a "sterile" one between governments and not between peoples, and called on the Arabs and Israelis to address themselves "toward the betterment of their peoples through mutual cooperation and respect." She repeated the words of an Arab spokesman saying that the real enemy in the Middle East is "poverty and social backwardness...
...Congress," said Chief Justice Warren in delivering the majority opinion, "intended to occupy the field of sedition" when it passed the 1940 Smith Act and succeeding anti-subversive statutes. State laws are "in no sense uniform," and their enforcement could present "serious danger of conflict" with federal antisubversion operations. In the strongest dissent that Earl Warren has ever faced, Justices Stanley Reed, Sherman Minton and Harold Burton argued that "in the responsibility of national and local governments to protect themselves against sedition, there is no 'dominant interest' . . . Congress has not, in any of its statutes relating to sedition...
...Communism's strange and dark world, unmasking yesterday's lie does not establish the truth of today's correction. More is involved in this great upheaval than a pious desire to redress the memory of dead comrades. The outside world can only guess at what conflict of motives inside the Kremlin drives its leaders to a reckless unraveling of the past, but does know that it is a dangerous game-the kind that usually calls for victims...
...background music add little when they are not distracting. The technical qualities of the film are not helped by splices and cuts. The flashback technique is effective, although the point of view is not maintained faithfully throughout. The film is most effective in the intimate scenes when the internal conflict of Hugo can be felt most dramatically. As such moments comprise the better part of the film, Dirty Hands is powerful not only as an insight into Communism, but also as a drama of an individual searching for himself...