Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...growth of "American Action" means that the climate is once more suitable for poisonous mushrooms. Now that President Roosevelt is dead, and in the hope that the American people have forgotten Nazi Germany, the McCormicks and the Gerald L. K. Smiths are again playing upon the fear of Russian expansion to promote their own brand of ostrich-like islationism. In light of the lessons of the 30's, this isolation is more than a short-sighted national policy. It is an international tragedy. In spite of its tender age and influence, "American Action" must be brought out into the light...
...crowd of over 1,500 in Sanders Theater, Pope opposed a "get-tough-with-Russia" attitude defended by David Dallin, former member of the Moscow Soviet. Harrison Salisbury, United Press foreign editor, in a history-like appraisal of Russia since the war, asserted that her foreign policy stemmed from fear of the western powers...
Those conflicts that have plagued the UN to date, disputes over territorial and economic expansion, atom bombs and free elections are, reduced to their simplest forms, offshoots of the mutual fear of two groups of nations, and are not the result of one hard-to-define ideology's incompatibility with another equally vague concept. Nations have feared other nations in the past, and our present uneasiness over Russian armies, or Russian apprehension of our plans and bombs fit into this historical pattern...
What matter if children carve up a pumpkin and set a wobbly candle in the shell? But fear for your life if nations carve up the earth into spheres of influence. Beware the man or nation who tries to disembowel the One World which is the last refuge of our hopes...
...bespeak a healthy fear, the fear that comes from a frank facing of the worst that is in the present and a fair appraisal of the consequences to which it could bind the future. The fear which was unashamedly felt by men now at Harvard when they faced visible and invisible death on ships, in planes and in foxholes; the fear that they went out, grimly and with little joy, to meet and master...