Word: originators
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Challenge. Said Secretary of State Cordell Hull: "It is my information that by the consultation now in progress [among 18 American Republics] there is already taking place considerable exchange of information regarding the origin of the revolution in Bolivia. This assembling of facts should soon permit each government to reach its own conclusions. The information available here increasingly strengthens the belief that forces outside Bolivia and unfriendly to the defense of the American Republics inspired and aided the Bolivian revolution...
...countries-Venezuela, Chile, Peru. Some were mere rumors, but it was obvious that a continental current was flowing. The success of the "Colonels' Clique" in Argentina, if underlined by a similar "Majors' Clique" in Bolivia, might encourage further army officer revolts. These might be purely nationalist in origin, not necessarily instigated by outsiders, but they would probably take Fascist forms and look to Argentina for support. Then the U.S. would be confronted by a powerful anti-democratic bloc within the "Good Neighbor" circle...
Among the 70 titles: Shakespeare's Complete Works, Tolstoy's War and Peace, e. e. cummings' The Enormous Room, Don Quixote, The Education of Henry Adams, St. Augustine's Confessions, Pilgrim's Progress, Lewis Carroll's Collected Stories, The Origin of Species, E. M. Forster's A Passage to India, Fourteen Great Detective Stories, Anatole France's Penguin Island, Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography, Odyssey, William James's The Varieties of Religious Experience, Ring Lardner's Collected Short Stories, The Philosophy of Plato, Alfred North Whitehead's Introduction...
...know that like the Americans of German descent, the overwhelming majority of Americans of Japanese origin are wholly loyal to the United States. . . . It does not make for loyalty to be constantly under suspicion when grounds for suspicion are absent. I have too great a belief in the sanctity of American citizenship to want to see these Americans of Japanese descent penalized and alienated through blind prejudice. I want to see them given a square deal...
Cried the Berlin radio: an Allied "outrage"; without doubt the bombs were of "British origin...