Word: nationalisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nobody seemed to mind, or even to see anything very unusual about this news. That attitude, too, told a lot about the richest nation in the world, the way it was heading, and the way a majority of its citizens had shown-in five presidential elections-that they wanted...
Everybody knew that real Western Union would require some sacrifice of national sovereignty. So far, no nation has been willing to make this sacrifice; the French plan does not call for it either. Nevertheless, the French believe that their assembly would at least be a step in the right direction. The British believe that this is self-deception. They claim that (like U.N.) the assembly would raise extravagant hopes of unity where conditions for unity are not yet ripe...
...hours. He denounced the Ruhr statute as a means to "dismember the heart of Germany and make dollar slaves of German workers." He shouted: "German politicians who today cooperate with the occupation forces under the Ruhr statute should not be surprised if they are considered quislings by the German nation." Then Reimann added that those who cooperate "may one day have to face reprisals...
...Policy? Foreign Minister Juan Bramuglia was known to have come back from Europe and the U.S. with the word that Argentina's economic policy, which had about wrecked the nation's foreign trade, was too inflexible. And it was a fact that the men who would henceforth manage the Bank and IAPI had served under Bramuglia the greater part of their political lives, Ares as economic chief in the Foreign Office, Morales as Bramuglia's assistant at Bogota' and Paris. If their appointments meant anything, they foreshadowed a break from Miranda's rigid selling policies...
...secret uranium was once an innocent element, mined chiefly for the cancer-treating radium associated with it. Before the atom bomb, no nation bothered to be secretive about its uranium resources. Even the U.S.S.R. described in detail the deposits found within its boundaries...