Word: distressed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pressing problems. The first is the preservation of the constitutional liberties which their people have gained through the years of struggle, the second is the problem of adjusting their economic life to the difficulties of the machine age. . . ." Although rival groups seek power and influence by exploiting economic distress, attempting to undermine democracy, main problem in combating them is to avoid taking action "which would undermine the fundamental structure of constitutional liberty itself...