Word: dangerously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only a Beginning. That the faithful Americans seemed eager to do. Cried Henry Wallace: "Any race or nation [like Germany and Japan] which feels that it was meant by destiny to rule the world will inevitably be destroyed . . . The Anglo-Saxons are in serious danger of taking just that step." Optimistically, Wallace added that he hoped "we may all soon meet in Moscow." At a $10-a-plate dinner, backed by a huge "antiwar" mural by Masses & Mainstream Cartoonist William Cropper, stout, bearded Charles Stewart, public-relations man for the Churchman, took up a collection. He raised close...
...greatest danger facing Western Germany, however, is not want. It is not represented by the jarring contrast between the smooth face and the scarred. It is expressed in the fact that, politically speaking, Germany has no face at all. One may look in vain for it in any small town -a town, for example, like Remagen...
What can we of the West do to check the danger? We must finally make up our minds what kind of face we want to see on tomorrow's Germany. We must decide whether our distrust of Germany is so great that we want her to be simply our colony, or whether we want to try to build a free and stable country. It is impossible to do both. If we want the former, we should not talk of democracy, we should not encourage political parties, we should see that the Germans won't produce more and live...
Bush noted that a danger of starvation exists, but said that investigations into the nature of photosynthesis may well make it possible to produce protein and carbohydrates synthetically. Russell asked "alarmists" to "look at vast...lands with rich soils and abundant water" that still remain to be cleared and put into production...
...stated that the Berlin Air Lift has so far been successful in maintaining our position in Europe, but pointed to the danger of the growing "Kremlin-controlled Communist Empire" in India and Asia. Churchill then warned again of the power of "these 13 men in the Kremlin," whose power he called "quite as wicked but in some ways more formidable than Hitler...