Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lloyd argued that the Anglo-French attack on Egypt was justified by the "failure of the U.N. to keep the peace" in the area. He claimed three important objectives achieved: 1) the Israeli-Egyptian war had been stopped. 2) an international police force had been put into position to prevent its resumption, 3) Russian designs had been exposed and dislocated. Nye Bevan called Lloyd's performance "sounding the bugle of advance to cover the retreat...
Sorokin insisted that a return to the "norms of the Sermon on the Mount" and the practicing of friendship toward all nations would prevent future wars. He denied that such "popular prescriptions" as democracy, education, or religion are sufficient to prevent the "termination of man's history on the planet...
...like all Stalin's undergrounds, this one had peculiar duties: it was more interested in liquidating the political opposition, i.e., the Home Army underground, than the Germans. At least one of its leading members collaborated with the Gestapo on this basis, tipping it off. But this did not prevent the Nazis from killing the Communists, and after several of the Moscow importations had disappeared, the leadership of the underground fell to Gomulka. There is no evidence that he pursued the Stalinist policy of doublecrossing others in the underground, and for this reason he is grudgingly respected by some Poles...
...failure to cough up adequate funds for Foreign Service personnel, retiring U.S. Ambassador to Italy Clare Boothe Luce told a Manhattan audience that such legislative parsimony is "folly to the point of national suicide." Said Mrs. Luce: "When you think of the billions that we have spent abroad to prevent our own atomic annihilation, it seems folly to deny a comparatively small sum to the very service which is working hardest to prevent...
Since Project "East River" and other studies predict that concrete and steel shelters alone will have little value in the event of atomic attack, the FCDA's approach is of dubious survival value. In dense cities such as New York the use of all possible shelter space could not prevent hopeless overcrowding and mass deaths. Evacuation, on the other hand, would be practically impossible, even with an adequate early warning system...