Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...confirmed the world's growing belief that a strong, positive U.S. line is the best guarantee against a new war. He offered a specific solution for the German problem-the indispensable prelude to any real European settlement. Best of all, he forced a showdown on Soviet policy. Fear of German revival has been Russia's excuse for her expansionist policies in Europe. If Russia now refuses the Byrnes offer of joint big-power assistance in guaranteeing her security against such a reincarnation, she will have to find another reason for expansion that does not sound like Hitler...
Eight thousand years ago, says Necrologist Moore, the unknown inhabitants of the Indian peninsula seem to have had no fear of death, regarded earthly life as a kind of spiritual education, death as release for the soul to return home. But from then until the coming of Christ, mankind grew more & more entangled in material things, and correspondingly loth to leave them...
...Committee points a finger, too, at Britain, the United States, and the United Nations. It tells the British to fulfill their trust, to cease mouthing phrases about the necessity of disarming the weak, oil-less Jews, to admit that it is the powerful Moslem states which they fear; it asks Americans to give more than empty words; it challenges the UN to assume the burden its charter claims. The honesty and logic of the report of the Committee of Inquiry will make its conclusions, conscience-like, dog the nations and their leaders until the long-sought solution to the problem...
...Indians outnumber the two million easygoing Malays. Many of the industrious Chinese have since advanced far beyond the latter in education and have established thriving businesses of their own. In Britain's plan for self-government and federation with equal citizenship for all, inhabitants of the Malay Peninsula fear that they would become a minority in a Chinese-dominated state...
...projected on a screen every few scenes; trains move across the stage; eagles pick up heroes and carry them off; feathers drop on the audience from the ceiling. These peculiarities, combined with a change of scene without panse every five minutes, keep the hapless audience tense, probably more with fear than anything else...