Word: creations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There could be no greater danger to day than the belief of the people of the United States that our military victories, and the creation of an International Organization, will automatically bring with them the establishment of peace on earth and that thereafter, as individuals, they need do nothing further to make this vision come true...
Yalta, to postpone the peace conference on Europe until after the Japanese war, and to separate the job of peacemaking itself from the creation of a world organization at San Francisco...
...needed a shave and his clothes hung in weary folds on his weary frame. Even on his day of creation, his thick fingers were curved, as though from grasping a pick handle or an M-1 rifle. He did not smile then and he has never smiled since...
When he was a fuzzy-haired sophomore at Colgate, Harry Emerson Fosdick wrote to his parents: "I am throwing over my old idea of the universe. I am building another-and leaving God out." Something went wrong with that creation-but Fosdick never lost his dislike of "old ideas" or his fondness for asking "Why?" These' qualities, backed by a quick mind and a gift for forceful expression, made "Fuzzy" Fosdick one of the most influential Protestants in the U.S. and the foremost popularizer of religious liberalism. Last week, after 41 years of service to the church, Harry Emerson...
...Place of Regions. Already the three leading powers in Europe-Soviet Russia, Britain and France-have attempted to protect their future by bilateral alliances. We would like to see the charter encourage a different approach to the security problem, namely, through the creation of a series of pooled-power centers in various parts of the world-joint bases and United Nations forces, consisting of units of the Big Three and other powers, which would act as a stabilizing factor. An Anglo-American agreement might well continue the combined military staffs and pool British and American bases in every part...