Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...leaving the world divided into three or four armed camps. Many friendly nations, with whom the U.S. has a strong working alliance in the U.N., would jump for a neutral corner. Said U.N. Delegate Warren Austin: "The only possible bridge between the East & West would collapse; and yet, the problem of bridging the gap between the East & West is precisely the crucial problem of our time...
...That problem, Marshall declared, was one not of form but of substance. The veto was merely the expression of a larger obstacle to world peace-Russian intransigence. If the veto were banished from U.N., it would still exist in the world-as Russian armed force...
...large number of people the chance to learn. It is not enough to say that our motives, which we think of as altruistic and pure, "are certainly misunderstood in South America . . . Now we must find out why we are misunderstood ... If the London Congress [begins] the solution of this problem . . . we will be doing a great deal to eliminate the causes of war. If in the measurable future we don't find some way of eliminating the causes of war, our grandchildren are going to find this world a most unhappy place in which to live ... That is important...
...London Congress will try to find out. Delegates from 55 nations (teachers, nurses, industrialists, clergymen, psychiatrists) will attack the problem of mental health all over the world, from every possible angle. They will explore the origin of group mental disorders, such as class and national hatreds and prejudice against minorities...
...General Education program has been envisaged as a solution to this very problem. It is intended to provide students with a "common core of knowledge." Whether or not the program will eventually achieve this end is a moot issue at the moment, one that will be resolved only if and when the program becomes compulsory and is characterized by more of the suggestions made in the original Report. In the meantime, the undiscriminating methods of the lecture-books-examination system will continue in force, leaving undergraduates to their own varied, and in many cases, inadequate devices...