Word: existance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Whether we like it or not, the time for talking in terms of abstract idealism is past. This is not cowardice or isolationism, but simply a realistic facing of the facts as they now exist. To the people of the Rocky Mountain west, Democracy means after all mainly the preservation of our own personal freedom and our homes. We cannot get along without the rest of the world and we know it, but we fail to see that we cannot try to adapt ourselves to a changing world and still keep our own faith in those particulars which are important...
...There is every indication, however, that there exist in this country . . . the resources, moral and material, granted intelligent leadership and organization, to see this thing through so that our great heritage shall be preserved...
...morning war broke, the famed "Canadian Field-Force Plan," drawn up by Major General Andy McNaughton, who is now commanding Canadian forces in Britain, was put in effect by the Mackenzie King Cabinet. It was to "mobilize immediately" 100,000 men. The Cabinet soon discovered that there did not exist in Canada even uniforms or Army shoes for 100,000 new soldiers-much less guns-and anyhow the Mother Country did not think she needed soon all that Dominion man power. Accordingly, Mr. Mackenzie King, just three days after the Plan shifted into high gear, discarded it entirely and explained...
...probability" and the principles of momentum and inertia - he calculates the shape of the trend curves as they reach into the future. By noting the height of the curve at a given future time, say next November, he arrives at the voting sentiment which he believes will then exist...
...This so-called 'fifth column' conveys nothing to me because it doesn't exist except in the imagination of fantastic minds or as a phantom created by unscrupulous propaganda for obvious purposes. Incompetent governments drive their peoples into war, and when they pitiably collapse, it is understandable that they prefer to shift the responsibility elsewhere...