Word: matter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More important still is a cold analysis of the consequences of war in the light of historical evidence. What is the effect of an armed conflict upon a nation's birth rate, its mortality rate, its political organization, its ethics and culture? Democracy may be worth saving no matter what the aftermath. But perhaps the very effects of a war may destroy all the conditions necessary to its existence...
...What honest man in no matter what country in the world could still believe in the word of those who today declare themselves satisfied or peaceful, now that they are covered with blood? . . . When Mr. Hitler tells us today after destroying Poland that he asks for nothing more, when he declares he wants nothing from France and will respect her frontiers, every Frenchman knows he will not hesitate if he can destroy France as he destroyed Austria, as he destroyed Czecho-Slovakia, as he seeks to destroy Poland...
...kept saying he wanted British friendship more than anything in the world, but could not sacrifice Germany's vital interests for it, and for His Majesty's Government to make a bargain over such a matter was an unendurable proposition. All my attempts to correct this complete misrepresentation of the case did not seem to impress...
...press have made a mountain out of this molehill. I made a semi-jocular remark to a local press correspondent to the effect that the Siegfried Line is not calculated to make concert goers queue up for a performance of the Siegfried Idyll. I am thinking of putting the matter in the hands of my solicitors...
...Greene, to put the matter unoriginally, is an idealist in this question of war. He accepts the protestations of France and Britain that they are waging a crusade in complete good faith. He is convinced that this is essentially--nay entirely--a conflict between naked power and reason in international affairs, between the suppression of human rights and liberties and the glorification of the same...