Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Occasionally it was heard. It was dubbed into a 40-minute film, Deadline for Action, put out by the Red-wired United Electrical Workers and run off in C.I.O. union halls. Said the voice of F.D.R.: "We ... are not making all this sacrifice of human effort and human lives to return to the kind of world we had after the last World War." But the film was really a buckshot charge against U.S. business; it deftly followed the Communist line...
...announced U.S. determination not to abandon Europe and to work out a constructive solution for Germany. Communist defeat in the Berlin elections was followed last week by a new Russian policy which clearly placed the urgent needs of Russia's people above thwarted external ambitions. That the Russian effort to drive a wedge between the U.S. and Britain had also failed was attested by the repudiation of American neo-isolationists of the Wallace school and by last week's speeches of British leaders (see below...
This conscious effort to please the bottom level of U.S. audience intelligence is made with assurance and .great technical competence. The result is so relaxing to eye, ear and brain that millions of moviegoers will not know that they are suffering a carefully studied insult...
...denouncement of the U. S. press, so-called "officials" such as John Foster Dulles and American Legion commanders, and some churchmen, pope, director of the Iranian Institute, urged people of this country to "put themselves in the Russians' place" in an effort to understand what makes soviet foreign policy appear difficult to cope with...
...that it might be important that such compromises as were actually concluded between the two countries should be generous to the European peoples directly concerned, and that they should be based on a willingness of both sides to see each other grow in prosperity, rather than on a mutual effort to increase each other's difficulties. In this connection I referred to the suggestions after the Paris Conference that a broader approach to peace-making was needed, as expressed by Britain's conservative statesman Mr. Anthony Eden, South Africa's Marshal Jan Christian Smuts, and America's liberal Mr. Henry...