Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communists are early risers. At 7:45, the S.E.D. vanguard arrived, panting. They placed wreaths before the still veiled monument to the memory of the men who had believed in a freedom which Communists have always denounced as "bourgeois liberalism," and which today they are seeking to destroy...
...fellow-hecklers had not been so absorbed in creating the kind of incident on which Communist propagandists thrive, he might have been able to hear the speakers and would thus have been saved from slanderous error. The Czech coup served as final proof that the Communists will destroy civil liberties even in a nation with democratic traditions; Saturday's meeting demonstrated that Communists are not by any means the only enemies of these liberties. In this at least, Mr. Cobb et al are their spiritual allies. Edgar M. Rubin...
...lead Russia to strike." At the White House the same day, President Truman admitted that his hopes for peace had been shaken in the past year. Then he carefully added: "I still believe we can get world peace. We must have it because we can't afford to destroy the whole world in another...
...eternity because of this moment. . . . For five centuries men have tried to make the world fit for heroes. The result is that angry individualism and angry collectivism stand growling at each other. ... A generation of dwarfs is looking to the atom bomb and V-bombs that may destroy all humanity...
Warren Austin stood in the Security Council and offered peace as the reason. Immediately after his statement the Jews threatened to form a Hebrew State. The Arabs reiterated their determination to destroy it. It is evident that the only way that peace can be maintained in the Holy Land is through the agency of a U.N. force. Without this force warfare is inevitable; with it, partition will be as tranquil as trusteeship or any other proposal. Peace is not the answer...