Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rational consideration, the charges of Congressman Dies have been found completely lacking in factual proof. In some cases he has gone so far as to urge dismissal of men who left the government service several months ago. As a result, Democratic and Republican Congressmen have begun a united movement to set up a new committee to pass judgment on these charges. They admit, by this action, that the findings of Dies and his assistants are not to be trusted...
...German Tragedy. In a book on Germany, The Silent War, published this week, Stefan Weyl and Jon B. Jansen, two young men of the Social Democratic underground movement, write: "The charge that has to be made against the German people is not that they never rose against the Hitler dictatorship. . . . That would have been expecting the impossible. . . . The tragedy for Germany and the world is that the German people, and especially the leaders of the Weimar Republic, were not politically mature enough to recognize what National Socialism really meant. . . . Nor is it an excuse for the Germans that...
...will leave us with many unsolved problems concerning our relations with Asia and other little understood parts of the world. We have begun to realize that gross economic inequality between nations is an unsafe foundation for world peace; we know that extreme nationalism and high barriers against free movement of goods and persons are a menace to international good feeling, but we do not know just how we can avoid these dangers without running into others. Can we secure an equilibrium by raising the less fortunate countries to something like our level of well-being, without lowering...
Transport. German war historians admitted that a transportation crisis was a prime reason for the failure of Germany's military effort in 1918. Today Hitler's Reich is suffering from a gradual loss in transport efficiency, a slow decline in speed of movement. Important freight is clogging in yards, on canals, in warehouses. Germany's whole military economy feels the effects...
...January 1918, when a German-sponsored separatist movement proclaimed the autonomy of the Flemish provinces, the Belgian High Court ordered the immediate arrest of the political leaders concerned. The Germans freed their protégés, sent the magistrates to jail. In protest, the entire judiciary struck...