Word: existing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Middle-of-the-road President Avila Camacho said: "Mexico is a democratic country. All parties are able to exist." Previously he had granted the Sinarquistas permission to colonize Lower California. He had straddled successfully Mexico's widely separated right and left for two difficult years. His major attempts to fight the Sinarquistas had been to spread leaflets and inspire articles telling the Mexican people that the conscript army would not be sent to fight in foreign wars...
Ohio (52 delegates): "With Republican laymen, Willkie is the only party leader who arouses any enthusiasm. In prestige and personal appeal, he has no runner-up. But to the Republican machine, Willkie simply does not exist. In 1940, Ohio's professional Republicans had their own man in Senator Taft. Now they have Governor Bricker. And this time they think they have a winner. Ohio is sewed up tight for Bricker; right now Willkie couldn't swing a precinct committeeman. . . . The independent organization that fought for Willkie in 1940 is dead...
Even before the war such freedom did not exist. One big reason was sheer military necessity, which made nations anxious to control the air above them. But another reason was simply trade jealousy. Thus, U.S. service to Alaska is dependent upon Ottawa's permission to fly over Canadian soil. Early transatlantic services dickered with Portugal for landing rights at the Azores. In the South Pacific Australia-bound Pan American was blocked 1,300 miles away at New Zealand until after Pearl Harbor. So far the U.S. has failed to permit TACA and British West Indian Airways to make scheduled...
...nurses go to every battlefront, will probably be called upon to handle "the vast problems of disease, malnutrition and war shock that will exist in devastated areas" after the war ("Be a nurse and see the world...
...know that no political unit nor national cohesion can continue to exist which is not supported by the voluntary acceptance and the faith of the great majority of the citizenry...