Word: fates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fight Fire. In a few weeks the Foreign Ministers of the Big Four would meet in Moscow to write at long last the terms under which Germany might return to some kind of sovereignty. On those terms depends the fate of all Europe. And "whoever deals with Europe deals with the world's worst fire hazard...
...Soviets license to crease treaty obligations at will, or under the flimsiest moral case since the phony Polish invasion of Germany in 1939. Under the Russian logic, the Treaty of Montreux and other of the accords reached following the last war, would be scratched from the books. And the fate of the Dardanelles and the Dodecanese Islands would be transferred from the conference tables of the original signatories to bi-lateral agreements between the Greeks and the Russians, or the Turks and the Russians. If the presence of Japan at Montreux relegates this treaty to the scrap-heap, Europe...
...slightly bemused. It did not affect his hardheadedness in promising to end the "grossly lopsided political character" which the federal bench had assumed under Democratic rule. But when a group of Wisconsin reporters asked his opinion of the coming presidential race he sighed and said: "As for me, my fate is in the lap of the gods...
...said, was a misnomer-the nations "did not unite, did not form one great allied United Nations, but only an alliance of states, a league of members all jealous of their sovereign rights." He emphasized that Europe's small nations are hurt by the fact that when the fate of Europe is discussed in international gatherings they have little to say. Said Auer: "The small nations ask the great powers to give them a hearing. . . . They do not want simply to be pawns moved here and there. ... All this is not in accordance with American traditions." His hope: that...
...Features' Syndicate President J. D. Gortatowsky, Dec. 28, 1945: "I have had numerous suggestions for incorporating some American history of a vivid kind in the adventure strips of the comic section. The difficulty is to find something that will sufficiently interest the kids. . . . Perhaps a title, Trained by Fate, would be general enough. Take Paul Revere and show him as a boy making as much of his boyhood life as possible, and culminate, of course, with his ride...