Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...retrospect, the job he had tried to do seemed fantastic. To maintain the basic U.S. position, he had to insist that Japan get out of China and stay out of the East Indies, but he had no big stick. The Army & Navy wanted soft talk, to give them more time. So did the British, the Dutch. Mr. Hull could not explain to the U.S. public that oil and scrap iron shipped to Japan were not meant to purchase peace but to buy time. His position was made torture by public clamor for a "strong stand" and by Chinese pressure...
...must this time enforce the victory. But patriotism has not yet been able to close one fissure between honest men: between those who believe that men must win the war before they think of the kind of peace they will get; and those who insist that, if the peace is not thought out now, once again there will be no peace...
First A.E.F. reaction to the announcement of Yank was a squawk. U.S. troops in Australia griped at the title. They have already had fist fights with Aussies who insist on calling them Yanks. Most of those who got into scraps were Southerners, but other U.S. troops down under don't like the gritty name any better. To avoid unnecessary bloodshed, some Australian commanders have ordered their troops to lay off "Yank...
...will probably reach some agreement with the University now, but the union will insist on reinstating waitresses as in the past at the end of the war," the organizer said...
...proud that it has fallen to our lot to smash Hitler's war machine, but we by no means insist on exclusive rights. . . ." U.S. Answer. Maxim Litvinoff's nation, alone among the Allies, had taken the full shock of the Nazi machine. He feared that his nation would be alone again when spring brought a new German attack...