Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vast and complicated is its scope that, there was talk last week at San Francisco of breaking the peace conference into several parts, just as San Francisco itself was broken away from the peace conference. There might be one peace conference to deal with Germany, another on Mediterranean problems, another on colonies, etc. Big Three delegates could see one advantage in this suggestion: not every conference need include all nations; Big Three dominance might be maintained by selecting the nations to consult with them on each set of problems...
...must not be stampeded by such dislocations into elaborate controls or special dispensations. Our economy is a jigsaw pattern of interlocking buyers and sellers, producers and consumers. The pieces of the jigsaw will move into place best if we give people scope and leeway...
What makes "Colonel Blimp" stretch to 146 minutes is its tremendous scope, its three generation historical footnote to the Law burlesque. Beginning called Clive Candy through out of the Bear War, the picture plumps down a punch bowl full of a atmosphere, all very English and very genteel. This was when wars were just "Summer maneuvers" so far as most people were concerned, and the British military set were having a dandy old time...
...interpretation vastly increased the scope of future trials. German and satellite war criminals might total between four and six millions. The physical difficulties involved were staggering. So were the moral and psychological problems. How, for instance, would U.S. and British soldiers react if they were called upon to execute thousands upon thousands of the guilty...
...they watched the Americans come in. As a mass they did not know what to do. Without newspapers, without radio, without all the thousand and one accustomed details with which the Nazis had organized their daily lives and influenced their daily thought, they slowly began to realize the full scope of the catastrophe which had befallen them, how thoroughly they had been cut off from and ostracized by the outside world which was now bursting in upon them with such cataclysmic power...