Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...getting tired of the incessant call for "leadership." We're just like any other people in the world. When we deserve something, we get it. Remember the frogs? Not the French, though the cases are somewhat parallel, but the frogs who turned from King Log to King Stork. It seems to me that leaders are much like wives. Sometimes you get a good one and sometimes you don't. Germany has the kind of leadership she wants. So have we (God help us). England had the kind she wanted in Chamberlain and now she has what she wants...
France's deeds continued to parallel Darlan's words. While French Ambassador to the U.S. Gaston Henry-Haye was solemnly assuring the U.S. Government that France would not go beyond her Armistice commitments to the Nazis, the Nazis were permitting Vichy to build an air force for defense of the French Empire. (Under the Armistice terms, all air equipment in the Unoccupied Zone was to be dismantled.) One grey rainy day old Marshal Pétain went to Aulnat airfield, near Clermont-Ferrand (France's Burbank-Akitin...
While Congress is establishing this agency here, the President would be requested to invite other nations to take parallel action...
...course, the plot--the attempt of a group of Athenians to bring Peace back to their city--is a natural for Student Union parallel-parable making, but even the most ardent Bundle for Britain will hardly object to swallowing this socially-significant pill, sugar-coated as it is with distinctively modern music by Leonard Bernstein, clever lyrics by William Abrahams, a colorful abstract set by Howard Turner and John Holabird, and a cast that is not merely capable but alive. And all of these elements have been brought together skillfully and with a refreshing lack of pretension by director Robert...
...parallel with France, he decided, was not perfect. The U.S. was healthier, he believed-in a state of mind more like that of England before Churchill came in-the same disbelief in the emergency, the same confusion of objectives in the national leadership. He also decided that U.S. isolationism was exaggerated, especially in Washington, which fails to distinguish between intransigent, Nazi or Communist-inspired opposition to aiding Britain, and old-style isolationism that Americans have felt for generations and which, coming from a disbelief that America is genuinely menaced, ends the moment the danger to the U.S. becomes clear...