Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only chance of strengthening a world front against totalitarianism is by building a democratic analogue to Stalin's multi-national Bolshevism . . . motivated by a desire to avoid war and prevent the one world of planned enslavement which is the Russian program. ... If the Western statesmen don't understand that the world cannot remain half slave and half free, the Russians do, and they are engaged in the most extensive propaganda effort since the Comintern was founded to make the one world their world. The weakness and injustices of our democracy provide them with excellent material for propaganda...
Since the progressive and anti militarist forces within this country would, in his view, be great enough to prevent a turn to a fascist dictator, the dominant capitalists would attempt to enforce a semi-war program in an effort to preserve their privileges, while assuring a moderate prosperity to the workers. This program would, when combined with a new type of imperialism allied to general reaction, lead to increased dangers of another war. To combat this danger Sternberg falls back on the progressives, urging them to expose this danger and to prepare an adequate foreign as well as domestic program...
...week's work was a breeze. The President combined social affairs (see The Capital) with business (principal item: a labor arbitration plan for the building industry), and had time left over to think about a bill which would prevent top officials from taking along government documents (such as the voluminous Morgenthau diary) when they leave Washington. For the second time this year he called in GOP and Democratic Congressional leaders for a "congenial meeting." Again they discussed such safe topics as extending the Maritime Commission's ship operating authority...
Cavendish-Bentinck did not let the charges against his friends or himself prevent him from discharging his obligation of observing last month's Polish election; he made no secret of his belief (shared by U.S. Ambassador Arthur Bliss Lane) that the election was neither free nor unfettered, as Britain, the U.S. and Russia had guaranteed at Yalta. Apparently, he felt that it would be a personal and a national disgrace to duck a responsibility his country had assumed...
...visitors (including Coalmaster John L. Lewis) held their offended noses. So many tourists began hurrying home that the nervous Lee County Chamber of Commerce wired Washington (the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service) for help and advice. Last week Army airplanes were spraying the masses of decomposing fish with DDT to prevent a threatened fly plague...