Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Albert Einstein, gentle genius, staunch individualist, proposed to a Manhattan meeting of intellectuals a worldwide union of brainworkers. Objectives: 1) economic security;* 2) political power. Objected Fordham's president, the Rev. Robert Ignatius Gannon, S.J.: "Dr. Einstein is a symbol of the mental confusion he is trying to remedy...
...simple fact about De Gaulle and the people of France might dispel some of the doubt. This fact is that De Gaulle the man does not amount to a great deal -now. The De Gaulle who counts is De Gaulle the symbol-the half-seen, half-known figure who to millions of Frenchmen personifies the French will to survive, to kill Germans, to lay Germany forever low, to restore France to greatness...
...another fact about Charles de Gaulle and France is equally important-perhaps even more important to those who must determine U.S. and British policy toward him, his Government, and postwar France. This fact is that the vast majority of the French in France, wholly accepting De Gaulle as the symbol of all they want now, have in no wise accepted him as the long-term ruler of France...
Gaullists cry out against this niggardly policy and against its chief instigator, President Roosevelt. But they are actually in Roosevelt's and Washington's debt: the more De Gaulle the symbol seems to be kicked around by the U.S., the bigger he looms to Frenchmen in France...
...themselves and to much of the world Cassino had become a symbol of Nazi invincibility. Three times since January the Germans had turned back whatever Allies-New Zealanders, Americans, British, Indian Gurkhas-had attempted to drive them out of the town and out of the ancient Benedictine monastery on a nearby hilltop. Said a Nazi general order captured last week: "Cassino has become synonymous with underlying heroism for the Germans. Hell to the Führer...