Word: dilemmas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...going. The novel was too fresh in people's minds, which meant that they would be critical of any picturization no matter how good. Selznick still had nobody to play Scarlett O'Hara, and for more than two years he maintained himself in this useful and exciting dilemma with tenacity and an astute sense of showmanship. Polls were taken, scouts were despatched, a play about the search was written, had been running two months-and still no Scarlett...
...problem was copper. The Yugoslav copper mines, largest of Europe, are operated by French and British companies which no longer sell to Germany. Moreover, a French trade delegation is scheduled to arrive soon in Belgrade with the explicit purpose of buying up all this copper output. The special Yugoslav dilemma is whether to expropriate the mines and let the output go to Germany, in which case the country may risk an Allied blockade, or whether to let the French buy the copper, in which case Führer Hitler might decide to create a diversion on the German-Yugoslav frontier...
...Japanese, who so far have succeeded in destroying neither the Chinese government nor any considerable Chinese army, have failed also, Gardner stated, in their attempts at economic exploitation, thereby putting themselves in "a more difficult dilemma...
...ruling class of this country are on the horns of an historical dilemma. The millionaires of Britain are afraid of peace and are afraid of war. . . . They fear the growing strength of the peaceful Soviet Union which remains outside the imperialist war camp...
During the past ten years men of good will, trying to escape the Left-Right dilemma, have been bravely challenging defeat, whooping up democracy, deploring dictatorship, condemning war, and agreeing that not much can be done about it all. To reflective witnesses, however, even the best "liberal" thinking has seemed about as far behind the times as Montesquieu's and Jefferson's was ahead of theirs. Parkes's book catches up with history. A young (34) history instructor at New York University, previously known for a brilliant History of Mexico and for a few remarkably lucid essays...