Word: conflictingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...because it brought out the three main points upon which high-handed Interventionist policies rest. These are, that America cannot isolate herself from the rest of the world, and so if a European war starts we are sure to go in; therefore we might as well enter such a conflict at the earliest opportunity; and finally, that the "people," being the most warlike group in the nation, should not be trusted with the responsibility of deciding whether to fight or not fight...
...terrestrial troubles. If it is possible for America to withdraw behind her coastline while the world rushes to destruction, it would be a convincing moral argument indeed which would persuade us to leave that sanctuary. But if, in the end, we are to be dragged, however unwillingly, into the conflict, it is shortsighted policy which prevents us from exerting our tremendous force on the side of those governments whose manifest desires, altruistic or not, are for continued peace...
...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...
...taffy-pulling contest. The Progressives maintain that John Lewis imported 10,000 miners to crush the revolt. The Progressives themselves on one occasion massed 15,000 for a march on Franklin County. Pitched battles were fought with as many as 300 armed miners engaged. Hundreds were wounded in open conflict and no less than 21 Progressives were murdered. Trains were dynamited, a bridge burned, and bombings became as common as rain. The state of law enforcement in the Illinois coal fields apparently is such that little attention is paid to shootings or murders. Last month 41 Progressive Unionists and sympathizers...
...ever afforded journalists the downright uncomfortable immediacy of the Chinese-Japanese 1937 conflict. The immediacy is substantiated by the casualty list...