Word: faction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Idiotic Ideologies. The Prime Minister mentioned plans for the increase of food production in Britain. There were more boos. Said Churchill: "All these plans will be nullified by foolish faction fights about idiotic ideologies and philosophical dreams about absurd Utopian worlds which will never be seen except by great improvements in the human heart and the human head." There was a roar of laughter. Said Churchill: "I'm sorry if that hurts...
...doubt the defeated faction should have slipped quietly away. For, like people, governments wish that former friends, whom for one reason or another they have injured, would drop away tactfully. But the London Poles had always been stiff-necked. Perhaps it was political despair, perhaps it was the habit of authority, perhaps it was old-fashioned love of country, which new-fashioned love of class was subtly supplanting through Europe, but the defeated government refused to fold up quietly. It denied that the free elections promised soon by the Warsaw Government would be free in a country governed behind...
Their argument is given credence by some Americans on the naive assumption that the Communists are just a political faction, a minority or an opposition and in war we need cooperation, even a coalition, of all parties. We ask: why will not Chiang take in the Communists as Roosevelt takes a few Republicans into his Cabinet? But there is a very considerable difference. We Republicans do not maintain a private army exercising arbitrary armed control over whole sections of the country because we do not like some New Deal policies. But the Communists do have a private army...
After reporting on the Walsh-Sweezy case, the Committee went on to study the entire tenure system for young instructors at Harvard and to advocate drastic changes. At the time, Professor Ferguson was considered part of an anti-administration faction in the Universities...
...years the House of Savoy has stood divided by a polite but firm family feud. Last week the faction headed by Crown Prince Umberto, Lieut. General of the Realm, was enjoying a temporary upper hand over the faction represented by his 45-year-old playboy cousin, Prince Aimone di Savoia, Duke of Aosta...