Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lease will open a new era of postwar trade. But will the dispatch of such Lend-Lease materials as machine tools to England, of complete plants and refineries to Russia, mean serious competition for the postwar U.S.? Under Secretary Stettinius is not worried. He wrote: "What have we to fear? The United States should be the last country in the world to fear competition after the war is won. . . . We shall have by far the greatest industrial power, immense material resources, a country undamaged by the enemy, businessmen who can stand up to businessmen anywhere in the world...
...plea is ... for fair play in our convention. ... If Willkie becomes the victim of smart political manipulation, with a handful of bosses dominating the Republican convention ... I fear for our survival. Such a course means suicide for the Republican Party...
...winter war of 1939 and which the Finns then refused. Yet Finland is in the worst external and internal situation of its history. Germany, in retreat, is a fair-weather friend. Sweden and the U.S. show open signs of disapproval. Soviet Russia, whom Finns have long hated and now fear, is hardening her attitude with every mile of the Red Army's advances...
...Zambesi and the "great, grey-green, greasy Limpopo River," the rain-goddess showed the prospector a great stone. She rolled away the stone, and entered the cave of Lobengula. With the rain-goddess and the prospector was a Matabele named Ginyilitshe. The desecration of the cave filled Ginyilitshe with fear, and he ran straightway to Bulawayo, to a white man trusted by the Matabele: Arthur Huxtable, District Commissioner for Native Affairs...
Thus the British and Dutch rubber producers took a more realistic position. They fear U.S. synthetic rubber production, and its possible tariff protection in the postwar era, more than the mischief of the Japs on their conquered plantations...