Word: establishments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...simple and ugly: he sought to whip up anti-Semitism in strongly Catholic Quebec. To his Ste. Claire hearers, many of whom seldom if ever see a Jew, Duplessis hinted a horrendous plot by the International Zionist Brotherhood to establish 100,000 Jewish refugees from Central Europe on Quebec's rolling fields. Opposition Leader Duplessis dragged in Premier Adélard Godbout's ruling Liberal Party, said that the Zionists had decided "to aid financially all Liberal candidates who would agree openly or secretly to support the plan in the House of Commons...
...like an ascending staircase. The age of religious wars ended when secular politics began to dominate . . . feudal politics ended when economic factors assumed overriding importance; the struggles of economic man will end by the emergence of the new ethical values of the new age . . . the new movement will re-establish the disturbed balance between rational and spiritual values...
Government Control. Informed Britons realize that their ultimate survival depends as much on a solution as on beating Hitler. They are united on the need, divided on how to achieve it. Advocates of private monopoly want to establish world cartels, fix prices by private agreement, guide the flow of goods, save private enterprise. It is an old, accustomed practice...
What Price Glory? The U.S. was determined that it should not happen again. The fast-dwindling group of those who believed in preparedness wanted a National Defense Act to establish and keep the framework of an army, so that the next time the U.S. would be ready. Pershing was still busy in France; he sent Colonel John McAuley Palmer to give advice, and Palmer framed an act setting up stronger National Guard units, ROTCs, CMTCs and a Regular Army of 280,000 men. Pershing came home to testify before Congress. He wanted a democratic Army. This was a democratic Army...
With time, Nakano's fanatic ardor grew. Eighty-six days before the attack on Pearl Harbor, he hinted that Japan would seize Singapore, urged the U.S. to divide the Pacific into two zones and let Japan "establish an ideal new order in Greater East Asia." Seventy days before the attack, he demanded immediate occupation of the Dutch East Indies, threatened that he would overthrow the Cabinet if it came to terms with the U.S. Six days before the attack, he demanded the sinking of U.S. ships if Washington rejected Tokyo's demands...