Word: failed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Treating the backgrounds for these violent plots, Grew continued, "Assassination is a well-recognized political procedure in Japan. When the extremists in the armed forces, especially the younger officers, believe that the Emperor's close advisors are too liberal in outlook and are failing to support the extremist and expansionist ambitions of the army and navy, they first try to get them out of office by political maneuvers and, if such maneuvers fail, then by armed assault...
...President has made the nation's coal miners government employees, and has told them that subsequently they cannot strike. Should all negotiations with the United Mine Workers fail, Roosevelt will have this government employee status to use as a club. But the usually good diplomat, showing signs of desperation in his losing fight with John L. Lewis, blundered when he told the miners that they cannot strike. Earlier he had acted wisely, appealing to the diggers not to strike as a patriotic duty. But by raising the legal question the President has encouraged the breeding of hostile attitudes. His statement...
Treating the backgrounds for these violent plots, Grew continued, "Assassination is a well-recognized political procedure in Japan. When the extremists in the armed forces, especially the younger officers, believe that the Emperor's close advisers are too liberal in outlook and are failing to support the extremist and expansionist ambitions of the army and navy, they first try to get them out of office by political maneuvers and, if such maneuvers fail, then by armed assault...
...their own research and scholarly work toward promotion. On the other hand, student interest has not always been overwhelming; dull sessions have discouraged work, and the absence of any sanctions has permitted laxity. Many of these trouble points will be bolstered by the course credit provisions, but these fail as long-term correctives. They are in themselves antithetical to the tutorial concept of education, whose keynote is flexibility and the avoidance of exam pressure. After the war other remedies will be needed for sick tutorial...
...point is not that Russia is unequal to the task. Russia has been on the offensive and it is Hitler who now has his back to the wall. The "Help Poor Russia" cry will soon change to "Jump On The Band Wagon Before It Is Too Late." If we fail to pitch in now Russian diplomacy will dominate the peace table...