Word: dilemmas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...King Leopold's dilemma was acute. As a constitutional monarch, he could not flout the advice of Belgium's Premier, unless he could replace him with a less hostile Premier. But any Premier and Cabinet that favored the King's return could be fairly sure of a resounding no-confidence vote in Belgium's Parliament. To St. Wolfgang the King urgently summoned several leading Belgians for talks. Reports that Leopold would appoint prewar Premier Paul van Zeeland or Lieut. General Ganshof van der Meersh, a Resistance leader, as Premier were met by Brussels trade unions with...
...four days Mrs. Helen Zuhars Goad MacDowell pondered a question that few women have ever had to decide: which of her two husbands did she want most? Her dilemma stemmed from the fact that the Japanese had held her first husband, Army Air Forces Lieut. Harold Goad, a prisoner without notifying the U.S. He had been listed as missing in action for a year after his bomber exploded over Burma. Last fall, the War Depart ment officially pronounced him dead, and two months later Mrs. Goad was married to Ensign Robert A. MacDowell, U.S.N.R...
...book, The Modern Dilemma in Art, which damns van Gogh, Cézanne, et al. as "mediocrities," explains his theories exhaustively...
...world faced that unfaced question, no plan for Germany could be either intelligent or complete. Europe was an area of power conflict, and the powers could not make up their minds on Germany, a key piece in the game, until their own future relations clarified. It was this dilemma that paralyzed the planners and robbed the Big Three's stern but incomplete Yalta agreement on Germany of any real meaning...
...conscious mood. The New Yorker has not been alone. A wartime schizophrenia has touched all U.S. magazines trading in fiction and frills. And last week, in the April Harper's, Poet-Anthologist Oscar Williams culled from his correspondence with poets a summary of the wartime writer's dilemma-"a kind of Gallup poll of the soul." No writer was particularly happy in his work. Samples of unease...