Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...postwar world, Dewey favors a U.S. alliance with Britain and, if possible, with Russia and China. He stands for international cooperation, including a pledge to use force against aggressors to prevent future wars. Says he: "We must be prepared as a nation when victory comes to assume our rightful place among nations. That place must be neither narrow nor imperialistic. . . . Equal opportunity for self-development is a fundamental American doctrine. It can and should be part of our foreign as well as our domestic policy...
...enemies be waged until complete victory is achieved; that the U.S. cooperate with its comrades in arms in securing a just and honorable peace; that the U.S. acting through its constitutional processes, join with free and sovereign nations in the establishment and maintenance of international authority with power to prevent aggression and to preserve the peace of the world...
...never get there if America tries to play a hand at the old game of power politics. We must encourage . . . and work exclusively with the forces that are neither Nazi-tainted nor Fascist-stained. . . . America must be willing to agree to bear its share in any military effort to prevent or repel aggression...
...ship operators, alarmed at the renaissance of the U.S. as a maritime power. Speaking at the annual meeting of the Propeller Club and American Merchant Marine Conference, the bluff Admiral proposed an international conference to study the shipping needs of each nation, with an attempt to limit fleets to prevent over-tonnage of world trade routes and disastrous rivalries...
...machinery and is fired. She sobs Maisie out of $20 and her fiance out of $100, steals Maisie's suitcase, slip and nylons. Then she departs with the bolt & nut man for the Cottonwood Apartments, where "opium smoking is not permitted in the corridors." When Maisie tries to prevent this assignation, Iris denounces her for sabotage. But Iris winds up with a wastebasket rammed over her head, while Maisie winds up in the arms of her airman...