Word: stops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They Were Ready. They were "just plain scared" at the thought of another war. But most were resigned to the idea that "we've got to stop Russia." They were divided over U.M.T. and selective service; for one thing, they did not understand how the two operations would function, how they would be separated, or whether both were necessary. But they were convinced that hundreds of thousands of Americans had to put on uniforms. They were ready to believe George Marshall: that the nation had to regain "a reasonable military posture...
...They do not understand why the U.S. contents itself with giving moral backing to the five-power western European military pact. Either America intends to stop Russia from dominating Western Europe, or she does not. If she does, she ought to give full and formal military backing to the five-nations pact at Brussels. She ought to make arrangements for standardization of equipment, for the maintenance of airfields, for the establishment of a joint staff and command...
...score of Arabs killed here, a dozen Jews killed there. That was the day-to-day story of Palestine. Since the U.S. decided to support Palestine's partition, over a thousand Arabs, 750 Jews and 105 Britons have been killed. The U.S. reversed itself last week supposedly to stop the killing (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). But war between Jews and Arabs seemed as inevitable as before...
...First stop for the Club on its tour will be Rochester, where the chorus will join the Rochester Civic Symphony under Guy Fraser Harrison for an Easter Sunday concert...
...personality creations packing enough wallop within themselves to negate their failure in terms of the whole effort. During a nightmare of battle, for example, Peter gains enduring respect for the unique integrity of Gene Wenisloski--an emotional attachment extending beyond Wenisloski's death under fire. And Peter's brief stop in Chicago to look up Harry Myers, renegade Communist turned boy's settlement leader, burns with a quality which had it been transposed into a consistent thread for the entire novel would have spelled far greater stature...