Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spring of 1937, when the abortive Supreme Court Reorganization plan was being debated, the President of Harvard has expressed his views on a national issue. And he has expressed them in unequivocal words: "I am personally strongly in favor of a modification of the law so as to permit the sale of implements of war to France and England...
...will not permit certain individuals to enrich themselves while others give their lifeblood. We are calm and resolved. We are not haunted like our enemies by fear of a long war. We think only of one thing: Complete victory. That victory we will consider won when we can give France the security which Hitler's projects destroyed for three years...
...Greene undoubtedly has a very great sympathy for Great Britain. Perhaps he has allowed his sentiment to point the direction of his arguments. But he must not permit himself to be stampeded into a jingoistic position. Reality and patriotism justify America's entrance only in the case of inconceivable eventualities...
...Conant visualizes something more definite than this, if he is urging the United States to take a positive leadership in the peace settlement, then his position is untenable. Even the most remote idealist canot believe that a victorious Britain and France, any more than a triumphant Germany, would permit neutral America to dictate the terms upon which the second Great War is to end. This country had its chance in 1918, and had it been as interested in the peace as it was in the war, Versailles and its aftermath might never have happened. If America wishes, as President Conant...
Although the war in Europe has placed a burden upon the present college generation--especially upon the freshmen--we must not allow it to crush us to the earth. We must not permit the "tonight be merry for tomorrow we die" spirit to ruin our academic careers. A full liberal-arts education is still for the having if we desire it strongly enough. Most important of all, we must have widely educated men if civilization is to go on. In this military era, scholars as well as governments can and must be militant...