Word: raced
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...impossible to resolve this dilemma. First of all, the fundamental fact must be recognized that since 1931 when the League of Nations system first began to totter, a race for strategic advantage has been under way, with Italy, Germany, and Japan in the van, and the democracies, including the United States, in full and ignominious retreat. Munich was merely the climax. In such a world as has resulted, force is the nominating factor, and it is important that the superior force be in the right hands...
...Conference was attended by the Harvard Committee, and by representatives of undergraduate organizations in 30 other colleges. Speakers included Franz Boas, leading American anthropologist who spoke on "The Nazi Race Myth," Dorothy Thompson, and James G. McDonald, former High Commissioner of the League of Nations. A concrete result of the conference was the erection of a permanent intercollegiate Committee which will stimulate interest in other colleges. Offices are maintained in New York City...
...Russia, which hitherto has concentrated on underwater craft, is entering the battleship race, plans to construct three 35,000-tonners, each with nine 16-inch guns...
...generation ago western civilization had apparently outgrown the major evils of barbarism except for war between nations. The Russian Communist Revolution promoted the evil of class war. Hitler topped it by another, race war. Fascism and Communism both resurrected religious war. These multiple forms of barbarism gave shape in 1938 to an issue over which men may again, perhaps soon, shed blood: the issue of civilized liberty v. barbaric authoritarianism...
...other nations have emphatically joined the armaments race and among military men the poser is: "Will Hitler fight when it becomes definitely certain that he is losing that race?" The dynamics of dictatorship are such that few who have studied Fascism and its leaders can envision sexless, restless, instinctive Adolf Hitler rounding out a mellow middle age in his mountain chalet at Berchtesgaden while a satisfied German people drink beer and sing folk songs. There is no guarantee that the have-not nations will go to sleep when they have taken what they now want from the haves. To those...