Word: defenders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There is no easy road to lasting peace. It cannot come overnight. Nor can it be obtained by written agreements left to be interpreted by each participant in his own way. It can only come about when the free peoples of the world are strong and thus able to defend their own freedoms; and that day is approaching rapidly...
...Forum was originally scheduled as an all-Law School affair, but no Law School Faculty member could be procured to take the Wallace viewpoint. Ciardi has consented to defend the Third Party, on the basis that it is "really a second party," since there is little difference in the Republican and Democratic platforms...
...will be opposed by Professor Howe, who will defend Truman's record against the attack of Ciardi, Leach, and Seavey. Professor Chafoo will take the middle course, emphasizing the need for keeping the expected Republican majority within limits...
...tough, spiteful Luigi Longo had run the Italian Communist Party without any of Togliatti's suave, serge-suited craftiness. Loudly, Longo had threatened insurrection, had ordered unpopular (and unsuccessful) nationwide strikes. At a closed meeting of the party's Central Committee, Togliatti last week listened to Longo defend his policy, then flatly contradicted him. Said Togliatti: "We cannot pin our hopes on a large insurrectional movement . . . Our objective is still gaining a majority by preserving all our old alliances and making new ones. Let us beware of locking ourselves up in our own walls...
About 750 people filed into a Chicago auditorium last week to hear Lynn Williams read the mayor's proclamation. Then Adler recited an 8,000-word catechism for Great Books readers, designed to help them defend the faith against attacks from unbelievers. The gist: "We don't claim we're going to cure the world, or cure flat feet. We do say we're going to do something for the mind...