Word: conflictingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Never Prime Minister, but for many years a daring Colonial Secretary and a behind-the-scenes political power, Joseph Chamberlain brought to every conflict courage, the progressive humanitarianism and the trading (compromise) spirit of the Middle Class, anathema to aristocrats and proletarians. He had no occasion to study the Sudeten, Czech or Slovak problems, but in 1885 he did propose to transform the British Isles into a federation with five separate parliaments. He was two generations ahead of his time in wanting to give Ireland substantially the status that it has today...
...limits, which were set as firmly as limits can be set in the Europe of 1938. If the crisis proved anything with finality, it proved that modern communication and enlightenment of the peoples reduce the chances of an outbreak of war. For the first time in history, a major conflict had been settled by talking instead of shooting first. And, while all men of good will deplored the dismemberment of central Europe's one island of democracy and were saddened for the painful uprooting of the minorities which will leave the ceded territories, realists took heart from one fact...
...feet above the Potomac and just to the west of the proposed field. Last week CAA and army engineers were planning to build the necessary air field structures in line with the laboratory building. Only other important objection to Gravelly Point has been that air activity there might conflict with traffic at the Army's Boiling Field, just across the river. That was ironed out, too, by a plan for a central control tower submitted by Major General Oscar Westover, Army Air Corps chief, just before he flew off to die in a crash at Burbank, Calif., last month...
Obviously this plan offers an alternative worth trying. The problem of liquor control is merely a phase of the age-old conflict between individual liberty and the general welfare; and this problem has never been solved except through compromise. Moreover, only through general education can any solution be feasible, for the most perfect theoretical plan can be wrecked on the rocks of public indifference. It is safe to predict that the efforts of the committee, even if not wholly successful, will go far toward solving what they rightfully regard as "one of the major perplexities of our civilization...
...Spanish fervor the ideals of the League, Dr. Negrin cried: "Once foreign intervention in Spain has been eliminated, I can assure you a policy of national conciliation, conducted under the firm, energetic direction of an authoritative government, will make it possible for all Spaniards to forget these years of conflict and cruelty and will rapidly re-establish domestic peace. Then the harsh trials of the present times may be regarded in our country as a baptism of blood, a kind of ransom that had to be paid for the renewing of Spain...