Word: indifferentism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Masani stated that the Cripps mission failed and, due to its frustration, caused a wave of anti-Britsh feeling. He said that the Indian peasants, who composed 90 percent of the population, were almost starving and were quite indifferent to the outcome of the present world conflict.
Last month Catholic Digest printed an article by Episcopalian John Erskine in which he termed Protestant missions south of the Rio Grande "the work of pure destruction," urged their abandonment. Catholic Digest in turn suggested that such missionary activity "violates our Good Neighbor policy" and that the U.S. "should cease...
Stalin then vented a contempt and conviction which have stayed with him, and have done much to shape the modern Red Army. He had no use for the man who was merely a professional militarist; for Stalin, officers and men had to be citizens of the revolution as well. When...
Japan is still at India's door. The R.A.F. sharply reminded India's sahibs and indifferent millions of this fact last week. A communiqué reported that in 46 days R.A.F. planes had dropped 100 tons of bombs on Japanese troop and supply concentrations moving into northern Burma...
Murray's statement was not much more indifferent to the future of price control than the report which precipitated the commotion. That document had a strangely "only yesterday" look, as if its authors had never heard of the fight against inflation, or did not believe what they had heard...