Word: frictions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...expert at the tango, an escort of Wallis Spencer years before she became the Duchess of Windsor. But Don Felipe was no mere tailor's dummy. He studied the U.S. and its economics. By 1931 he had become Ambassador, and in the next twelve years operated smoothly on friction-fraught issues...
...trouble at Duck Hill had the historic elements of race friction: Southern Negroes quartered close in a Southern camp. On the Fourth, some Negro troopers in Starkville to the east were roughly treated. At Camp McCain, resentment smoldered. Next night hot heads grabbed their Garands, broke into a supply house, crammed their pockets with cartridges, set out for Starkville, some 70 miles away. At Duck Hill their weariness equaled their anger. They took up a position along the Illinois Central tracks, shot away their anger with their ammunition, retreated when the lights came...
Gone were many earlier aspects of Giraud-De Gaulle and U.S.-British friction. But London and Washington were not optimistic about a "one-empire, one-strength, one-voice" agreement. The best that they hoped for was operational unity between divided but cooperating forces. That was an immediate necessity, and the French are practical...
This would lead to a renewed divoreing of the United States from European affairs, and subsequent friction between the large bloes of the post-war world. This regional federation idea is "the woral possible thing if American opinion is to support a vigorous world government," he said
Churchill's plan may harmonize Europe, but it cannot pacify the world. A permanent peace cannot exist as long as they are any groups, no matter how large, between which friction can arise. A United States of Europe would only force this country back to the isolation of the western hemisphere. If once Europe, Asia, and America are economically divided, a new balance of power would be established which could be no more successful than those that have preceded...