Word: insists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both Socialist and Volkspartei members vigorously deny that the government was formed under pressure from either Austrian Communists or Russians. To Allied eyes the Renner Government looked like a put-up job when the first news came over the Moscow radio. Now the Austrians insist that Renner sent notification simultaneously to Britain, the U.S. and Russia, but that for some mysterious reason the messages to Washington and London never got through Russian censorship...
While it is all right for them to gallop through the countryside trying to drum up future business by interesting Sunday-school kids in war, I do think they have a lot of brass to insist that every man, whether he is built that way or not, be forced to spend a year of his life learning their trade...
...stripped of many industries, educationally reformed by the victors, thickly sown with intelligence officers watching for any signs of V-102. Nor can Germany be reshaped merely by putting "democratic" German elements in power. "The German Right are undoubtedly the bloodiest men that have ever defiled the earth. ... I insist upon their being totally liquidated as a political party or force. ... I prefer the German Left. I am not, however, fool enough to take the German Left on trust again...
Perhaps you recall seeing this three-quarter-page advertisement by the Communists last summer in papers all over the country, in which Earl Browder says: "The time is more than ripe for the United States to insist that the Chungking Government shall put its house in order with a real, not a .formal, unification of all Chinese fighting forces...
...said from the beginning and during all these seven years, and reiterated the offer last month, that he will accept them in a coalition government immediately if they will become just a political party-that is, will give up their separate army and their separate government. For us to insist that Chiang Kai-shek reconcile himself to a splitting of his own country and send military supplies to an armed rebellion is to ask him to be a traitor. Of course, he has not been willing to do it, and will not, unless the Communists will, first of all, give...