Word: lies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there is an urgency in the need today that outweighs all negative factors. Already the mold of war is being shaped in the minds of men. To lie back and depend on press and radio, embassy and War Department to break down the barriers of militant nationalism is to invite that war. Students have greater responsibility than other members of society in promoting the international flow of ideas whch is the only basis of lasting peace...
...adjustment of international problems. The instrument is as effective in its potentialities as its destructive counterpart--the fissionable atom. But for all the prayers offered up to a good of peace, and for all the prophesies of professional well-wishes, the United Nations, as Secretary General Trygve Lie said,". . . is no stronger than the elective will of the nations that support it. Of itself it can do nothing...
...fate for a group of evil men . . . yet the force of the condemnation is not unaffected by the fact that the nations sitting in judgment have so clearly proclaimed themselves exempt from the law which they have administered." Said the Manchester Guardian Weekly: "Behind [the Nűrnberg case] lie the outraged feelings of whole peoples whose memories carry a far heavier load than ours. . . . If they demand a brutal penalty which is yet hopelessly inadequate we may not gainsay them. . . . [But] there are many features of this process which do not sit lightly on a civilized conscience. . . . Certainly...
...some 200,000,000 Moslems would be, too. "The Princess," he declared, "belongs to all Islam." His wife's attorneys thought otherwise. Had he not dreamed up his claim to the Turkish throne while working as a pants presser in London? Cried the Emir: "It's a lie!" Was he really a subject of Turkey? Certainly not. "Turkey is a subject...
United Nations Week (Sun. 4:30 p.m., NBC). First in a series of special network programs saluting the opening of the U.N. General Assembly. Speakers: Dean Acheson, Acting Secretary of State; Paul-Henri Spaak, U.N. Assembly President; Trygve Lie, U.N. Secretary General...