Word: threats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...deluge of profundity concerning the delicacy and portent of relations between the western democracies and Russia, which has been pouring from the typewriters of American journalists, has temporarily obscured the increasing threat to world peace inherent in the internal structure and probable ambitions of the two Spanish speaking, fascist-type nations--Spain and Argentina...
...controlled by men who were friendly toward the late, unlamented Axis powers. Both nations contain numerous refugees from Germany and Japan. The governments of both nations are so constituted that they can continue to prosper only in an atmosphere of suspicion and nationalistic club waving. The type of threat which they present is one which by now should be well understood by our government. Yet, these unregenerated banditti proceed to sow the seeds of war, unmolested...
...stirring up war rumors in order to delay demobilization (actually, the U.S. is disarming at a far more rapid rate than Russia). Some were self-contradictory-such as his swaggering assertion that the atom bomb was merely a weapon to "intimidate weak nerves," but that it nevertheless constituted a threat to world peace.† Other things, such as his assertion that Russia was not planning to use Germany against the West, were made suspect by current Soviet policy and pronouncements. Three days after Stalin's statement, Pravda called for an "offensive against the ideology of the capitalist world...
...fact stood out clearly: the universal sigh of relief that greeted Stalin's peace coo showed how well the world understood that the only possible threat to peace came from Russia. Most reassuring point: the statement seemed to remove for the time being the greatest source of war danger-the possibility that the Kremlin might underestimate the power and purpose of the U.S. and Britain, and rashly precipitate a situation which would make war inevitable...
...struck a key glass factory last June, forced the Government to seize it and satisfy worker demands. The Government still runs the plant, reputedly at a big loss. Some regiomontanos favor starting another plant like it and running the Government out of business. Others see changing times, the first threat of expropriation...