Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...consensus of everybody that this must not be allowed. Then we discussed how to prevent it. It was agreed that if the Japanese got into the Isthmus of Kra, the British would fight. It was also agreed that if the British fought, we would have to fight. . . . If this expedition was allowed to round the southern point of Indo-China, this whole chain of disastrous events would be set on foot...
...some other countries (e.g., France, Italy) Russia is for the moment content to infect a minority big and influential enough to prevent policies she considers highly undesirable, though not big enough to get control. Still a third group of countries (e.g., India, Spain) is exposed to Communist contagion, largely because their present regimes have not solved pressing political and social problems...
...State Department had failed to prevent foreign governments from imposing such tight restrictions on selling that disposal was made doubly difficult...
...Geology, said Friday that we must "begin control of the atomic bomb at the source of the raw material." Recently elected president of the YMCA's National Council, Mather declared at their forty-fifth national convention that collaboration by ten nations that control the supply of uranium would prevent atomic warfare...
Meyer, who served with Harold E. Stassen at the San Francisco Conference, held that the time is growing short in which to prevent another war, and that this can be done only by abolishing the concept of sovereign nations. His arguments paralleled those set forth by the recent Rollins College Conference, which proposed amending the United Nations Charter to create a world government...