Word: elements
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...present the plan diplomatically but firmly to the Arabs as a "fait accompli," with the almost inevitable result that the Arabs would grumble a bit and then accede. Both Jewish and Arab extremists must be ignored, for the plan is essentially one of compromise. But the most important element is speed. British soldiers are dying in Palestine and Jews are rotting in DP camps for lack of a solution. Britain must act quickly to carry out a clear-cut partition plan and the United States should examine their own immigration laws and decide whether or not increased immigration here would...
...United States is interested in China not as a smoothly-running machine but as a two-party, democratic republic. If the Nanking government, as it stands, contains the answer to Chinese difficulties, Washington might have taken advantage of the Moscow-Chungking agreement of 1945 to shed the Communist element entirely. As it stands, this country is on the fence in China, and while it might be worthwhile to encourage Chiang Kai-shek in his attempt to rehabilitate the country, Americans, and their government, seem to be more interested in encouraging Chiang to reach an agreement with the Communists...
...danger in these claims lies in the susceptibility of many elements of the American public, much less a trained legal mind, toward underrating the complexities of the Chinese dilemma. If Professor Pound states that Chiang Kai-shek is achieving reconversion, that the Communist question is overrated, and that the Kuomintang government is deserving of greater American support, he is bound to influence great segments of American thought, even if he does speak with the limited knowledge that he admits. The extremely narrow limits of his view, and the dangers inherent in it can be seen in the presence of General...
Under its present constitution the Student Council has been equipped with an electoral procedure that has allowed one element in the student body, the Club group, to achieve representation far beyond its numerical strength. This constitution has licensed the Council to dabble in risky Freshman dances and smokers, entailing investment of $3000 of money subscribed by students who had little idea that these funds might be devoted to projects which hardly can be termed "charitable." Further, there is no constitutional limitation on Council spending; thus such questionable expenses as $275 for private dinners and pictures cannot be legally disputed...
...prewar R.A.F. padre, not a pilot, a slight difference in occupational activity. I did not say that The Bells of St. Mary's was "so bad," but that it had a dishonest element to which devout Catholics also objected...