Word: interventionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"The compromise has eased tension, but it has not meant victory for either party. De Gaulle, who came here with the intention of creating a strong, central, sovereign power, now finds that the power is split, that his plans for broad, sweeping reforms are reduced. For General Giraud, also, the...
>Decreed intervention* in each of the 14 provinces.
The shots-90% from newsreels and confiscated enemy films-rise to levels of tragic poetry (a drum-deafened sequence of hordes of marching Axis children, youths, men in uniform, and the dazed faces of their elders) and pity and terror (a shrill, doomed maggot-swarm of naked, newborn, state-ticketed...
Says famed Astronomer Harlow Shapley in the introduction: "Our success in war and peace depends not on luck, or rhetoric, or the intervention of mythical gods; it depends on human character and modern scientific creations, and on respect for the meaning and methods of science. . . . It is not luck but...
In the melee which follows, Hope tosses fire extinguishers and miscellaneous junk in the laps of the Nazis, and a well timed intervention by a bunch of soldiers, sailors and marines succeeds in apprehending the enemy agents completely.