Word: insist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ranged against Trippe and his principal ally (United Air Lines) are the CAB, the State, Justice, War, Navy and Commerce departments, and 17 U.S. airlines. They insist that the competition which built the U.S. domestic airlines will do the same for its international airlines, and they have no misgivings about the limitations of the overseas air market...
...General de Gaulle did not want the Big Three to think that he would insist on wrecking Dumbarton Oaks if nothing better were offered. He apparently realized that he had gone too far in some of his recent displays of anger and defiance, took this opportunity to make graceful amends. Said a temperate, challenging statement which le Grand Charlie personally edited...
...memorandum was not made public, but one of its big points had previously been elaborated by Vandenberg on the floor of the Senate. He will insist that all decisions made during the war (Poland, Greece, Rumania, Yugoslavia, etc.) be re-viewed at the final peace conference. This proposal may have provoked W.W.C.'s outcry about imperialism. Pundit Walter Lippmann, frankly in favor of spheres of influence, cried that Senator Vandenberg's suggestion would cause "endless confusion." But Harold Stassen, internationalist, has also insisted that any world organization should include provision for peaceful change as it is needed...
...Germans: Opportunity. Russia intends to insist on heavy industrial reparations from Germany. But if Russia must rely on Germany for virtually all her reconstruction imports, German industries will work full blast for Russian reparations. Whether or not this means prosperity for the German people, it will mean the speedy restoration of Germany's industrial potential, a new opportunity for the Germans to threaten world peace. If, to prevent the Germans from seizing this opportunity, the U.S.S.R. is tempted to take full political control of Germany, then Britain and the U.S. may well be alienated from their ally-another opportunity...
...Vatican. Said the statement : "Establishments of religion, however widely representative, however exalted, have no place at the council tables of the state. ... As a political power . . . the papacy has thrown its weight into the scales of the present human struggle on the side of the enemies of democracy. . . . We insist that a church which would link its destiny to that of the state must be kept at arm's length by the state." The statement was made public by Kenneth Leslie, left-wing editor of The Protestant. Among its signers: Dr. John A. Mackay (Presbyterian), of Princeton Theological Seminary...