Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...speaker was Lieut. General Carl Spaatz, U.S. commander of Allied Air Forces in Northwest Africa. He was explaining an exercise in war and semantics -the movement of his forces from the realm of "superiority" to that of "supremacy." This had been achieved by the three arms of his command...
Common Origin. Common Wealth had its first discernible origin in 1940, when philanthropic, wildly socialistic, 36-year-old Sir Richard launched his Forward March Movement with the slogan: "Liberty, Equality, and Material Well Being." In early 1941, Author J. B. Priestley and a group of other intellectuals prodded the Churchill Government with a manifesto demanding a definition of Britain's war and peace aims, a more positive social consciousness...
This postponement reawakened all of De Gaulle's old doubts, suspicions and mistrust of the U.S. policy which had pointedly ignored his movement for two years. The misgivings were not allayed when General Eisenhower tartly announced that the Fighting French announcement of the request and the delay surprised...
...View. "The Enemy loves platitudes. Of a proposed course of action He wants men, so far as I can see, to ask very simple questions; is it righteous? is it prudent? is it possible? Now if we can keep men asking 'Is it in accordance with the general movement of our time? Is it progressive or reactionary? Is this the way that History is going?' they will neglect the relevant questions...
...aptness for this role. The European Governments in Exile have discussed English as a second language to be taught in all Continental schools; the Chinese Government has not revoked its decision to make English the second tongue of China. The British and American Governments may either blight this movement by linking it to condescension, or encourage it by living up to their ideals of freedom...