Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...postwar aims to come from Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt is the two-year-old Atlantic Charter, which calls for: 1) no Anglo-American aggrandizement; 2) self-determination of national boundaries; 3) self-determination of governments; 4) free trade; 5) international social security; 6) freedom from want and fear; 7) freedom of the seas; 8) outlawing of force...
...Chicago workers have turned to victory gardening in their spare time. A local official admitted: "It's hard to whip people into enthusiasm, let alone fear, when we're winning...
...Insurance. Probably the most powerful trump card the Allies can play is the prospect of furnishing postwar influence for Turkey against Soviet Russia. Despite the "series of most advanced treaties" which Saracoglu announced as having consolidated the Turkish rapprochement with Russia, Russian postwar aims remain Turkey's greatest fear. Control of the Dardanelles, Russia's only outlet to the southern waterways, has been a sore point between the two nations for decades; Turkey's control of it today hinges on the Montreux Convention...
...Government's fear of Communism is another stimulant to Turkish suspicion. Modern Turkey is organized on strict totalitarian lines and is the product of a revolution; 20 years of existence have not yet fully stabilized it. The westernization program of Kamâl Atatürk lifted it out of a medieval slough, but economically and financially it is still far from healthy, and wartime difficulties have stimulated latent inflation...
Where Trio fails, and fails badly, is in Author Baker's artificial simplicity. Fear of the frightening depths and complexities of human emotions, fear of her own sentimentality drives her, as it drives Steinbeck and Hemingway, to find safety in a false toughness, to gush, and at the same time to deny the gush by freezing it in the casual chilliness of slang and jargon. Example: "Suddenly look at him out of the bottoms of the green eyes with the fringy lashes, sock her fingers into that wig of hair, twist that lovely perplexed...