Word: existant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What makes the plan utopian is in truth nothing more than that it is a plan. It would substitute for the haphazard standard of Harvard's instruction methods, allowed to exist by accident or whim or unfortified tradition, a policy. The policy would be a standard to which no course would have to conform but which would be there as a guide, a stimulus away from haphazardness and toward an ideal...
That problem, Marshall declared, was one not of form but of substance. The veto was merely the expression of a larger obstacle to world peace-Russian intransigence. If the veto were banished from U.N., it would still exist in the world-as Russian armed force...
...After investigating U.S. occupation troops in Germany for the Secretary of War, Chicago Attorney Orville J. Taylor reported on their affairs with German women: "It would be disingenuous not to concede that such liaisons do exist and on a very broad scale. However, many of the persons involved are entirely capable of performing their professional duties...
...weapons for secret warfare exist. That I am competent to assure you . . . In a secret war the country under attack might wither as a nation, without knowing it had even been sick . . . Those who watch vital statistics might discover a suspicious increase in infant mortality-for the year ending a year ago. New pests would appear that survived the usual sprays. Cattle would develop diseases the county agents had never seen...
...earliest aspirations toward European unity were mostly military. Rome unified those parts of Europe that it cared to lay hands on; but Europe as an entity did not exist. Charlemagne, a brief beacon in the Dark Ages, headed a "Roman Empire"-with the blessing of a new force for unity, the universal Church. Since then, most of the would-be unifiers have been secular-Charles V, Louis XIV, Napoleon, Hitler...