Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Without regard to their source, or to the Willkie candidacy, Harrison Spangler, genial symbol of professional Republicanism, could well ponder these words as a considerable answer to the Republican dilemma...
Last week, more clearly than before, Canada saw the shape of her constant dilemma: How to reconcile membership in the British Commonwealth with her geographical position, her national aims...
...country had been brought face to face with this dilemma by an ill-timed speech of Lord Halifax, in Toronto two weeks ago. In it he had proposed that Britain and the Dominions share equal responsibility in the shaping of Commonwealth foreign policy. This suggestion, innocuous to U.S. readers, was enough to cause violent debate in Canada...
...Against Many. There were other Canadians who felt that the issue of one against many voices for the Commonwealth oversimplified Canada's dilemma. They believed that Canada's own interests would not necessarily be compromised if she accepted responsibility in the Commonwealth policy. So far Opposition Leader John Bracken had refused to accept battle on Mr. King's terms...
Resolve and Dilemma. A message smuggled from Rome to Bari, and signed by representatives of the six parties, gave an account of guerrilla activities, of sabotage and strikes organized by the underground Italian Committee of Liberation in Nazi-occupied territory, complained bitterly that "in this fight, the Government [of Marshal Badoglio] is not participating." Count Sforza accused the Marshal of removing secondary figures but protecting those principally responsible for Fascism's misdeeds. He concluded: "To save Italy, the King and his most important accomplices must be eliminated...