Word: failed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...task and that of our associates is to. . . create an effective system of international cooperation. . . . If our nation and like-minded nations fail in this task, the way will be open for a new rise of international anarchy, for new and even more destructive wars. . . . A system of organized international cooperation for the maintenance of peace must be based upon the willingness of the cooperating nations to use force, if necessary, to keep the peace. . . . Readiness to use force, if necessary, for the maintenance of peace is indispensable...
Even Businessman Jesse Jones joined the Army & Navy in opposing renegotiation after taxes. Their grounds: 1) it would make the Government pay industry's taxes, in effect, 2) would fail to distinguish between the profit that industry deserves on its own investment and what it should get on the investment of public funds (as in the case of Government-built factories). All Government witnesses, including the Treasury, came out flat-footed against allowing postwar reserves as a cost item in war contracts. Their reasons: 1) existing tax laws already allow for some postwar reconversion cost...
...together, nothing is impossible. If we are divided, all will fail. I therefore preach continually the doctrine of the fraternal association of our two peoples, not for any purpose of .... territorial aggrandizement . . . but for the sake of service to mankind...
Third Zone. "In the event that the First Zone of Safety shall fail to insure peace, and that it is impossible to establish a permanent concord among the victor nations, a Third Zone of Safety is proposed . . . : a permanent defensive alliance between the United States and Great Britain. This alliance shall provide that the two . . . great English-speaking nations shall act as one in case of attack upon either...
Fifth Zone. "I hope it is not possible, but it may be possible that the four preceding Zones of Safety will not work. It is thinkable that all of them might fail and that the United States would be left alone...