Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Charles Lindbergh came out for world organization in the atomic age as the only alternative to "constant fear and eventual chaos." He still insisted "that World War II could have been avoided...
...want to ... see how best we can lift from the ordinary man and woman this specter of fear that haunts him today. I want to consider . . . how best our common ideals of peace, freedom, tolerance and economic prosperity for all people can be realized...
...sorry; he hoped that the people would talk back to the organizers. (The tragedy of all successful revolutionaries is that they must hand over the power to men who were not tempered in the fires that tempered them. Part of Moscow's sense of insecurity comes from this fear of the "soft, new men.") Kalinin could remember 1905, when he led the great strike at the Putilov works, and 1902, when Stalin led the workers at Batum (see cut). Kalinin reminded the organizers...
...detail, it perhaps explained why the Russians could afford to permit the rise of vigorous political opposition throughout the Soviet sphere (TIME, Nov. 12). But, in itself, no economic scheme could guarantee that the opposition would stay within Russian bounds. The opposition parties had risen under the knouts of fear and want; they might continue to thrive, especially with encouragement...
...will now start on Nov. 15. ¶ The committee will not waste time junketing to Pearl Harbor. ¶ All Army & Navy personnel will be free to testify without any fear of subsequent court-martial or detriment to their future promotion. ¶ The question of whether or not Cordell Hull's blast of Nov. 26, 1941 actually set off the war (as the Army Pearl Harbor Board had charged) was apparently settled; it did not. Navy Secretary Forrestal reported the finding of documents in a sunken Jap vessel which showed that the Pearl Harbor attack had been approved...