Word: underlay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York Sunday News, which has the most readers in the U.S. (circ. 4,650,000) makes certain assumptions about them: 1) they are literate enough to read picture captions and comic balloons; 2) they are baseball fans; 3) they savvy cop talk. These assumptions underlay a News headline last week...
Against Whom? One other fundamental difficulty, unique to world organization, underlay San Francisco's travail: it had nothing to organize against. The U.S. Constitution probably would not have been adopted had it not provided "for the common defense" against outside enemies. All human groups are held together partly by external pressure. After World War II, the Axis nations would not serve this important purpose for the world at large; their control was reserved to the Big Powers alone. Last week a conference committee decided that the organization would not even have ex-members; the charter would not mention expulsion...
These speculations were noteworthy because: 1) they existed; 2) they had spread from street corners and hamlets to the capitals of the U.S. and Great Britain. But they were only roseate possibilities in the minds of the war planners in Washington and London. Sterner prospects and realities underlay the actual calculations of victory...
...fact, ascertained by neutral observers last week, that Britain's destroyers in home waters were now whittled down to about 60, with a like number laid up for repairs. To eke out surface escorts, big British seaplanes now fly convoy far out over the Atlantic. This situation underlay Britain's anxious effort to buy old U. S. destroyers...