Word: dilemmas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Editorialists were in a dilemma; they did not want to argue that the President was indispensable, but they thought he should be taken to task. Said the New York Herald Tribune: "He gave many of his countrymen a slightly nervous afternoon. . . . While we all like and admire high officials who do not think that their own necks are the most important things in the world, the hard fact remains that those necks very often...
...strife between its 3,500,000 French and the rest of Canada. He has always given French Canada what he considers fair and just treatment. When he was forced to impose military conscription, because of the soldier shortage in October 1944, he was squarely on the horns of a dilemma...
...writing you without the knowledge of any other person except Admiral King (who concurs) because we are approaching a grave dilemma in the political reactions of Congress regarding Pearl Harbor...
...World War I the Russian revolution posed a dilemma which both the revolutionists and their bitterest enemies held inescapable: the Extreme Right or the Extreme Left. For two decades of mounting political violence, Europe's people, most of whom wanted neither extreme, were drawn, duped or beaten toward one or the other...
Under strict orders to stay out of China's still-limited civil war, the Americans were the targets of fierce Communist complaints that they were practicing "armed intervention." From beautiful Peiping, in the heart of embattled North China, TIME Correspondent William Gray cabled a survey of the U.S. dilemma and China's plight...