Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...desire to avoid war and prevent the one world of planned enslavement which is the Russian program. ... If the Western statesmen don't understand that the world cannot remain half slave and half free, the Russians do, and they are engaged in the most extensive propaganda effort since the Comintern was founded to make the one world their world. The weakness and injustices of our democracy provide them with excellent material for propaganda...
...struggle for human decency and a better social order seems to me to be more important than the "ultimate" victory of a total program. ... It seems to me unwise to jeopardize the chances for immediate piecemeal gains by staking everything on one effort for fundamental revolutionary change. . . . Te be resigned to the contingency of defeat, but to fight like hell for the best possible chance in every alternative, is what the good life in action means. To triumph in a struggle at the cost of one's fundamental values is the height of vulgarity-and futility...
...plunged with unsparing effort into her postwar job as Education Minister. She said her aim was to educate young Britons for the atomic age: "It's a race between education and extinction." In recent weeks she had worried about herself, told some friends that she was "done for." But she still dashed about the country to local school meetings, kept four secretaries busy, wangled money, materials and manpower to build more schools...
Alfred Boley, counterman of the Meredith roadhouse where he claimed serving Gardiner and a shorter companion on January 28, examined battery rosters of the 97th New Hampshire National Guard, in an unsuccessful effort to identify the second man who called the employee "an old Leyte buddy...
Basing his remarks on ex-Secretary of War Stimson's recent article in Harper's Magazine, President Conant discussed the military requirements which forced the use of the bomb at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. "Nothing would have been more damaging to our effort to obtain surrender than a warning or demonstration followed by a dud--and this was a real possibility. We had no bombs to waste," he said...