Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nine years ago, war broke out chiefly because there were too many men too much afraid of war. Because of their fear they sold or forgot the faith, the common sense, and the courage which might have prevented war. Today, the danger of war lies, as it did in 1939, with the men who fear war too much...
...that in Berlin today tens of thousands of other Germans are risking their lives to defy Communist tyranny. Tens of thousands, within sight of Red Army tanks, are fighting Communism openly and well. They know that if the Communists ever control all Berlin, they will be done for. They fear war, like all reasonable men; they would be the first to feel it. But they do not fear it badly and blindly enough to buy "peace" at any price...
Adenauer cut him off imperiously: "I would like to remind you that we in th:'s chamber represent 46 million Germans in the only part of Germany where there is freedom from fear...
Adenauer's brave words, however, were not entirely correct. There was some fear in this assembly-the fear that, at Berlin or Moscow, the West might drop its plans for a Western German state in some sort of a deal with the Russians. Several delegates anxiously buttonholed observers from the U.S. Military Government to ask whether the Big Four negotiations might not render the whole performance at Bonn "somewhat academic...
...headphones; after the first day of the World Council, 30 sets were missing - 25 of which were later returned. younger churches of Asia and Africa than did earlier ecumenical conferences. Handsome, flashing-eyed Sarah Chakko of India expressed their attitude: "There . . . seems to us to be an undue fear of Communism, especially among the delegates from the U.S. In Asia the people we must reach are people who are asking them selves frankly, 'Is Communism the right way for us?', and we must face its challenge not with denunciations but in direct specific terms...