Word: nationalisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...final result was that each nation agreed to cut its dollar imports further, but would judge for itself how much to cut. This was billed as a compromise, but actually it was a victory for Cripps. For the next year or two, OEEC would let each nation seek recovery in its own way; in Britain's case that would mean continued efforts toward relative national self-sufficiency. That was what Cripps, the prudent husband, had been plugging for all along...
...captious remnant of a bygone social order. . . They have treated the rise of Socialism as an aberration from the normal British way of life, instead of recognizing that the Socialist ideal of the welfare state is very closely in tune with the ideas of a frustrated and war-weary nation...
...many of the leading intelligence of the country." One of these, of course, was G. B. Shaw, who long ago had pointed out that under the present system the word "fish" might just as well be spelled GHOTI; GH as in enough, O as in women, TI as in nation. GH-O-TI = fish...
Dwight D. Eisenhower had scarcely begun to learn his new job as Columbia University's president before he was whisked off to Washington to become presiding officer of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Yet the nation's fourth biggest university* (enrollment 28,800) seemed to just keep rolling along. Who were Ike's deputy commanders while he was away? Last week Columbia identified them...
...meetings of 1942, when it called for a postwar world organization, or of 1945, when it called for the Christian concepts of justice, law and human rights in the U.N. charter. The delegates sidestepped the issue, called upon the Senate to postpone final action on it until the nation has had an opportunity for full discussion of all its provisions and implications...