Word: crux
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...interventionist groups praising the proposal to the skies. For most persons the question of conscription has crystallized the whole problem of preparedness--when and for what--and must be thoroughly investigated before a decision is reached. Such an extreme change in American living cannot be hysterically rubber-stamped. The crux of the decision pro or con compulsory military training rests on the belief as to Hitler's future intentions. On the basis of all the facts and statements of Nazi leaders to date, there is a distinct possibility that if Germany wins in Europe she will attempt an invasion...
...Crux of the Budapest-Bucharest discord has been Transylvania, which Hungary lost to Rumania in 1918. Last week Hungarian newspapers, notably the semiofficial Pester Lloyd, mouthpiece of ambitious Foreign Minister Count Stephen Csáky, turned on a vitriolic press campaign charging the most horrible atrocities against a most helpless minority in Transylvania-the Szeklers...
...Crux of their theories: that aggression is caused by frustration. The German people, said Dr. May, are deeply frustrated. At first they attacked the Jews, have now turned their attacks upon their real frustrators. He explained: "Because they could not place their hands on the English, whom they really hated, they turned to the Jews, innocent bystanders. Since the beginning of the present war we have heard relatively little about the Jewish persecution, for hatred has now been canalized...