Word: statement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Foreign Commissar Litvinoff's most eloquent, emphatic statement on international morals was made in his maiden speech: We are faced now with the task of preventing war. ... At the same time we must grasp the undoubted truth that . . . not a single more or less important war can be localized. . . . We must also tell ourselves that any war sooner or later will bring distress to all countries, both to the combatants and the nonparticipants...
...first statement to the Riksdag (Parliament), the Cabinet declared that it "shares the wish that Finland should be assisted as much as possible, both materially and morally," but significantly added that it would "direct its effort to maintaining the independence and neutrality of Sweden." This was believed to mean that the Government would allow other countries to ship materials through Sweden, but would not itself supply arms or munitions...
Whilst heartily approving your general attitude with regard to the H.S.U., I should like to take issue with the statement that, whilst "...the H.S.U. is avowedly an organization for the preservation of peace and democracy... a basic confusion still remains; the confusion about the role of the communist in a liberal coalition...
...Council on Medical Education and Hospitals) said recently in a published interview: "The appointment of Dr. Davison is evidently an effort to fulfill the recommendation of the American Medical Association and the citizen's committee. No action [on the hospital's rein statement] can be taken by the council until its meeting...
Duncan Phillips, critic and collector, once said of Cezanne that "there is no illusion of life in his work, but a plastic equivalent for it which has a life of its won." Now this statement, though not applicable to all of Cezanne's work, is a simple, yet comprehensive summary of a very important aspect of the artist's style. And if we spend a few moments studying the three Cezanne paintings which are now being shown in Fogg Museum, we can begin to see the truth embodied in Mr. Phillips statement. Cezanne manages to create something besides the object...