Word: post-war
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...Atlantic. He urged a common citizenship, defense force, money, postal and communications system, and a custom-free economy. By 1940, Streit's book had gone through 17 editions, for with World War II fast approaching, people were seeking a slogan, a goal--in short, a blueprint for a new post-war world...
...Europe turns a corner in its post-war history, what does its youth think of the future? To find out what the younger generation of the Continent's most articulate country thinks, TIME'S editors sent Correspondent Stanley Karnow ranging from Paris up and down France. Karnow talked with young people of all kinds: Communists, Socialists, Catholics, city boys, country boys, students, workers and peasants. And he talked to them in their own language...
...country is presently basking in sunshine. There is full employment and a minimum number of social injustices demanding correction. The Socialists cannot say of the Conservatives that they need to be dragged "kicking and screaming into the twentieth century," for the Tories have accepted most of their own post-war legislation. Indeed, Labour has been hard pressed for election issues because all the real issues existed within its own party...
...increasing interest in religion has come to the world in the post-war decade and with it a growing desire 'among Christians to come together, President Pusey told more than 5000 Protestant laymen at a five-denominational communion and breakfast in Boston on Sunday...
...wave of action to Communism which occurred in the post-war years, many people strongly protested the appearance of such people as Gerhart Eisler before University audiences. When Eisler spoke in 1948 and 1949 on such topics as "The Marxist Theory of Social Change" newspapers and commentators throughout the country branded the University as "Communist-run" and called upon the administration to ban Eisler and his ilk from the University scene...