Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to the theory, history is a succession of such changes in social systems. The changes occur because of "contradictions " (jargon for conflicts, struggles). The changes are not just the defeat of one of the forces in contradiction, but the evolution of something new, something different from both (this is the "dialectic"). The something new is always a step upward, the evolution by violent cross-breeding of a higher type of society...
...conviction of defeat was strongest among the educated, the influential, the rich. The peace-at-any-price tide welled right up to the door of Chiang's study. His indomitable will directed China to go on fighting, but in the absence of the people's confidence, one man's will was not a resistance...
...reserve in the U.S., was already curtailing its draft schedule. The problem was up to the JCS and the U.S. people. They now had Douglas MacArthur's word for it that, one way or another, the U.S. could not escape sharing the cost of Nationalist China's defeat...
...books helped to explain Germany's military collapse from the German side: Defeat in the West, by Milton Shulman, a former Canadian intelligence officer, and The German Generals Talk, by British Captain B. H. Liddell Hart. Both concluded that the German army's biggest handicap in the field was Adolf Hitler's personal direction of the war. Of special interest and excellent of their kind were A. D. Divine's Dunkirk, a brilliant recording of the cross-Channel rescue of Britain's beaten army in 1940, and Memoirs of a Secret Agent of Free France...
...team has one of the biggest schedules in its history this year. After Bowdoin come Cornell, Princeton, MIT, Army, Columbia, Amberst, and Yale, Eli is by all odds the top match; after last year's defeat the squad is looking forward to the Yale fencing game as the Harvard Provision Company looks forward to the Yale football game. "We won't do too bad," says Peroy...