Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hardly a week goes by without some subscriber asking a question like this-a question that is all the more pertinent because TIME makes no effort to "scoop" the daily press...
...absence of free discussion much side-alley talk ensued. The lunatic fringe of the Left tried to identify him with fascism-an effort in which they were aided by characters on the lunatic Right such as Gerald Smith who spoke in his favor. And there arose the unseemly sport of "smearing" MacArthur. But generally, despite an occasional serious utterance such as the open advocacy of Senator Arthur Vandenberg, most of the press and radio kept dead-pan to the attitude that MacArthur-for-President was not a proper subject for discussion...
...almost be summed up in two words, 'too late'. . . . The greatest strategical mistake in all history will be made if America fails to recognize the vital moment. Such coordinated help as may be regarded proper by our leaders should be synchronized with the British effort so that the English-speaking peoples of the world will not be broken in detail. The vulnerability of singleness will disappear before unity of effort...
...home, Mr. King's determined effort to shape the new world satisfies an emergent, self-confident Canada's sovereign aims. His position squares with 1) Canada's claims to a seat on future Pan American councils, 2) the fierce intranationalism of ardently isolationist French Canada, which has always supported Mr. King's noncommittal policy toward the Commonwealth. But the Prime Minister has a ticklish question to answer: Does his policy square with the tide of Commonwealth opinion running strongly in Britain and the other Dominions? Balance for Britain? In Britain, no less than in Canada, there...
...peace-befuddled '30s. They quarrel, haggle, hate, interbreed with disdain, intrigue desperately against one another and their country. At the end of 561 perfervid pages, the toughest member of the current generation forces his malignant tribe to acknowledge that they had better cooperate with the war effort or else...