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Asia. Combining about 522,000,000 people in about 42 sovereign states, it is the only area of the planet where "the facts of international life conform with the spirit of the Atlantic Charter." The Atlantic is the crucial area of U.S. fate...
...Parliament, the Supreme Soviet. A peasant's son, he became a munitions worker, joined the Bolsheviks during World War I. His first key post was as head of the party's Control Commission, which keeps the Reds on their toes, purges those who do not conform. Andreyev's mind is intelligent and subtle. Close to Stalin, he is definitely one of Russia's up-&-coming...
...dances will conform to all the Navy Regulations but weak punch will be served. The dance was organized by Daniel R. Shields '46 and Peter M. Lewis '46, in charge of entertainment, with the aid of the rest of the committee. It is scheduled...
...President was ready for this: almost everybody in the room had had a hand in it, he said. Asked for specific instances, he said there were flocks of them. Read any columnist, he suggested. He went on: unfortunately, some reporters are forced to write stuff to conform with their publisher's line...
...behavior is influenced by education. We have to ask ourselves how Germans became Nazis in the first place. The millions of youth who pushed Hitler to power were not taught Hitlerism in their schools and universities. . . . The fact is that what students were taught in their schools did not conform to the reality which they saw in life. . . . Democracy failed to provide . . . a satisfactory social and economic existence. . . . Hitler merely canalized the almost universal discontent . . . It makes little difference what people learn in their schoolbooks . . . if their social and political life is depressed and insecure...