Word: prompts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...looks as if humanity is moving inexorably toward Armageddon and into the limbo of forgotten things, an oblivion of its own making. Only the remnant now left of what Mr. Wilson called the "enlightened conscience of mankind" can save the situation. Unless prompt action is taken it will again be "too little and too late," and this time destiny plays for keeps...
...President pledged himself to two prompt steps: 1) he would ask Congress to set up government control over the production and use of atomic power within the U.S.; 2) he would study and recommend to Congress means to make atomic force "a powerful . . . influence towards the maintenance of world peace...
From War Secretary Stimson came a prompt, tart reply. The point system would not be revised until next year, and, moreover, the War Department did not intend to increase its present rate of discharges. Said Henry Stimson: "We shall not let any man go whose going jeopardizes the lives of the men who remain to fight." Rudderless Ship. The size of the Army had the most direct bearing on reconversion, which was the second problem roiling the domestic scene. To all intents & purposes, reconversion was stalled. In a sizzling report, the Senate Investigating Committee had called on the Office...
...Holsti saved his country from starvation after World War I by a successful appeal to Herbert Hoover for food. When Nazi domination of Finnish affairs sent him packing in 1940 he found refuge as a professor at Hoover's Stanford University. Generally credited for Finland's prompt war-debt payments, he had a practical foreign policy: "A small country can never have too many friends or too few enemies...
...Prompt release from censorship of all scientific military secrets which no longer involve security (for a step already taken in that direction, see below...