Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jerusalem may be the most dramatic problem facing the United Nations Trusteeship Council, but it is certainly not the only one. The non-self-governing parts of the world, especially Africa, have been a constant dilemma since the establishment of the Council...
...Berlin Dilemma. The most obvious, and the most important political fact facing Konrad Adenauer's government is that it governs only two-thirds of Germany. Simply by holding the other third, the Russians can constantly dangle the prize of unity before West Germany's eyes. The focus of this continuing battle for Germany's allegiance is Berlin. In the divided city's Eastern sector, the Russians have set up the capital of their puppet state; to all Germans, they proclaim Berlin once more the capital of the Reich. But the city's Western sector feels...
Somewhere in this dilemma lies irony. For years the social scientists, and the physical scientists as well, have decried the "cultural lag"--the inability of the social sciences to catch up with the advances of the physical sciences. This lag is blamed for the faltering success of democracy and the chronic inability of the human race to live peacefully with itself...
Coalition Dilemma. Said Premier Bidault last week: "We must govern in the center with the aid of the right to reach the goals of the left." This Gallic triple-talk indicated the weakness of the coalition that Bidault must depend upon to govern. As long as the present Chamber of Deputies exists, only patchwork coalitions of devious and delicate compromise will be possible. An increasing number of deputies want to dissolve the Chamber and hold new elections. Yet that would do little good unless there were a change in France's basic electoral law. The present law, providing...
Without the sobering sight of Vienna, a tourist attending the Salzburg Festival would tend to overlook the dilemma of Austria, for there he would hear one of the world's finest orchestras, some of the best singers, and see good theater in a city which lost only its railway station in the war. Openly buying at the blackmarket exchange rate, he might not notice that lemons are unobtainable because the legal rate of 10 schillings to the dollar is prohibitive to Italian exporters. He would not realize that Austria is a thoughfare for refugees from Eastern Europe. He would...