Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Poland's dilemma is quite definitely the world's anxiety. Democratic France, Britain, and even the diplomatically snobbish United States, may have to worry about the poisonous fumes cast from the body of a dying autocracy. With the international arrangements of Central and Eastern Europe having all the reassuring stability of a charlotte ruse, the end of a definite policy for Poland can do more than rock the boat. And, whatever the world might have thought about Pilsudski's policies, at least they were definite. He built his house quite discreetly upon the foundation of amity with Germany, his next...
...post-rebellion clean-up work, Greece's Premier Tsaldaris was caught in the dilemma that Greece is still largely Venizelist and that Venizelist-haters demand the sternest action against the late rebels. Dozens had been sentenced to long prison terms; nine generals had been cashiered for "unsatisfactory conduct" (doing nothing one way or another); scores of officials had been fired. But until last week Tsaldaris had executed no Venizelist officers...
Germany's only chance to break the stranglehold of the Allied blockade was by submarine warfare. The blockade interfered with U. S. trade, and torpedoes took U. S. lives. The German dilemma was how to make the submarine campaign effective without embroiling the U. S Author Millis does not compare the morality of the blockade with that of the submarine campaign, simply puts their on a warlike par. He notes that "all the lives, both civilian and naval, lost in the whole course of the U-boat war were a: nothing compared with the frightful slaughters of the West...
...Poland's long-impotent Parliament constitutional changes making the dictatorship still more absolute. "One thing at a time!" is the crusty old Marshal's motto. For Poles the choice of the future lies between reverting to their old-time French alliance or sticking with Germany. "Our crushing dilemma," said a highly placed Pole last week, "is that if the Nazis fly to arms against the Bolsheviks or vice versa, in either case the aggressor will attack Poland first. Who are our real friends...
Confronted with this dilemma, most adults would choose annihilation-according to Dr. Knight Dunlap, distinguished Johns Hopkins psychologist. Somewhat dubious of this conclusion was one of Dr. Dunlap's distinguished colleagues, Dr. Frederic Lyman Wells of Harvard Medical School, head psychologist of Boston Psychopathic Hospital. Dr. Wells and his associates presented the Dunlap Dilemma on cards to 176 persons. In Science last week Dr. Wells reported that only one in six of his subjects voted for annihilation...