Word: preventers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wars can be prevented just as surely as they are provoked and therefore we who fail to prevent them must share in guilt for the dead . . . We must not forget that the roots of conflict flourish in the faults and failures of those who seek peace just as surely as they take shape from the diseases and designs of aggressors . . . We cannot feign innocence through indifference or neglect of struggles that bring on wars...
...Britain had made concessions: 1) the Ruhr was to be administered by an international board which would see that France and the rest of Europe would get a fair share of Ruhr products; 2) the new Western German government would not be centralized but loosely federalized to prevent it from becoming too strong; 3) military occupation would not end "until the peace in Europe is secured...
...Enfants," originally a super-epie, has been cut to about half its original length for American release. Many of the cut scencs were as good as or better than the ones that are left. The chopping does not, however, prevent the American version of "Les Enfants" from being one of the most beautiful and most fascinating and most perfect films ever produced...
...security as they were for Britain's. But when Bevin calmed down he sent new instructions to Britain's Sir Alexander Cadogan at Lake Success: London would stop arms shipments to Arab states, provided the Security Council called for a general arms embargo which would prevent other nations, as well, from shipping arms and men to Palestine. The British also called for a four-week Arab-Jewish truce...
They have, unaccountably, been in Christendom's midst for a long time. On the road to Calvary (so a gypsy account goes), an old gypsy woman took pity on the Savior and tried to prevent His crucifixion by stealing the nails that were to be used. When caught by a Roman soldier, the woman begged for mercy: "I haven't stolen anything for seven years." One of the Disciples was moved to say: "You are blessed now. Henceforth, the Savior allows you to steal once every seven years." Since then, the gypsies have roamed the world, cheerfully stealing...