Word: ende
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Treaty of Versailles either had to be revised as time passed, or England and France . . . had to keep Germany weak by force. Neither policy was followed. Europe wavered back and forth between the two. As a result, another war has begun ... a war which may even lead to the end of our western civilization...
...must be as impersonal as a surgeon with his knife. Let us make no mistake about the cost of entering this war. . . . Munitions alone will not be enough. . . . We are likely to lose a million men, possibly several million. . . . And our children will be fortunate if they see the end in their lives...
...enter fighting for democracy abroad we may end by losing it at home...
...still at her dock at week's end was the American Trader. Her C.I.O. crew suddenly struck for a $150-per-month war risk compensation for each seaman (average wages: $70 a month). The union also wants a $25,000 life insurance policy for each man, to be paid for by the U. S. Treasury. Another crew walked off the U. S. Lines' American Traveler with identical demands. By week's end two passenger vessels and four freighters destined for evacuation of U. S. refugees from Europe were tied up, foundering Secretary of State Cordell Hull...
...themselves like coiling springs wound ever more tightly. With its daily and hourly revelations of deficiencies, allegiances, loyalties, its drastic breaks with the past, with traditions and plans, with cherished projects, World War II assumed a magnitude at its beginning that World War I did not assume until its end. But it was a different kind of war-a war of diplomatic assaults and economic raids, in which the troops of aggressive nations only moved upon nations that had already been defeated...