Word: risks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sept. 25) you admit being stumped as to an equitable solution to the European situation-given an Allied victory. Of course there is none. But with a German victory there can be a solution. You may not like to believe it, but it's the truth and to risk a banality-the truth hurts...
...given, and under Nazi rule the people have learned not to ask or reason why, but the six-and-a-half-hour official radio shutdown-presumably for repairs-was seized upon by Germany's Freedom Station, a portable radio transmitter run by daring anti-Nazis who at the risk of their lives keep one jump ahead of the Gestapo or secret police. With supreme audacity the Freedom Station opened up in the early morning, broadcast as a straight news bulletin that the Allies had just agreed to an 18-day armistice, that the "Chamberlain-Churchill Cabinet" had resigned, that...
...might say, truly neutral) they would not heed the calls of distress from suffering humanity when they themselves were otherwise engaged in watching the ticker, or playing bridge, or writing thoughtful treatises on the insanity of their fellow men. They would not go to the considerable trouble and risk of using their knives to remove the malignant growths in the body of civilization. They would always find comfortable refuge behind that ancient question, "Am I my brother's keeper...
...early to condemn the League for indecision; one can say only that more positive action would have been preferable. But more courageous days are doubtless in store, and certainly it is not too late. At the risk of losing a little superstructure, a more solid foundation can be laid...
...chief risk of losing a war lies in trying to 'win the war'- by pursuing the mirage of decisive victory on the battle field. . . . Under present conditions, it would be folly for Britain and France to attempt offensive strategy in the West, at any rate in the early stages...