Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was still fear, despair and violent death in the land. At Wilmington, Mass., a 21-year-old ex-soldier killed himself by piping exhaust fumes into an automobile, saw fit to record his last sensations. "Joints feel funny," he scribbled. "Chest filling up fast . . . going...
...prospect of a Big Power conference no longer excited the naive hope and fear which would have attended it a year ago. It was unlikely that next week's Paris meeting of the Big Four Foreign Ministers would greatly ease or greatly aggravate the chronic competition between Russia and the West...
Barriers of Interest. The fault is not wholly with the U.S. All nations pay lip service to free trade; all fail to practice it. The British agreed to ITO in order to get the U.S. loan, but they fear that it means sacrificing their sovereign power over their own markets to become dependent on an economically undependable U.S. Many
During World War I Jinnah was a conspicuous worker for Moslem-Hindu unity, persuaded the Congress Party and Moslem League to hold joint sessions, used as his slogan "a free and federated India." In 1917 he could still attack the idea which later became his obsession. "This [fear of Hindu domination] is a bogey," he told League members, ". . . to scare you away from the cooperation with the Hindus which is essential for the establishment of self-government...
Economic differences aggravate the irritation. Enterprising Hindus and Parsis almost monopolize banking, insurance, big business. Moslems, slower to welcome Western education, complain bitterly that Hindu factory owners rarely employ a Moslem clerk or foreman even when most workmen are Moslem. Moslems have a real fear that, in a unified India, Hindus would freeze them out of important posts in government and industry...