Word: risks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...views on the ways to achieve social justice and a moral reconstruction of Europe. But when these remain largely matters for academic discussion while the whole weight of the church is thrown into the Pope's holy war on the Kremlin, the Roman Church is running the great risk of finding itself in a few years fighting with the Russians for the possession of a moral corpse. It is also certain, in the struggle, to gather a lot of allies who will almost surely make it seem to Europe's masses a champion of reaction. . . . Unmitigated Gloom. What...
...Might Come. In seeking to gain one concession after another from us, Russia hopes to profit by the well-known reluctance of democracies to risk war and the equally well-known ability of dictatorships to do so or at least to appear to be running the risk. Such a policy usually has a short-range advantage for the dictatorships. But it ultimately leads to war. The concessions, which the democracies make, pile up fears and resentments among even a reluctant population until the moment is reached when even democracies are forced to make a stand. Meanwhile the same concessions increase...
...unhappily, the picture begins to renege on its early promise. The thrills continue but their quality diminishes. Psychiatrist Lew Ayres, a specialist on the personalities of twins, sets out to discover which girl is which. By falling in love with the sweet, normal Miss de Havilland, he runs the risk of getting his back stabbed by the just-as-pretty De Havilland who is criminally insane...
...Washington from Roosevelt days, this situation called for fast action. He had also handled the H.oly Land problem for F.D.R. Niles now urged Politician Truman to do something at once for the Jews. Bob Hannegan thought it was a fine idea. The President decided to act-even at the risk of international repercussions...
Scotland Yard's unruffled reply: witnesses might have been influenced if they had seen the hunted man's picture before identifying him in the lineup. British justice-as the press well knew-would rather run the risk of a murderer at large than prejudice the chances of a man on trial for his life...