Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stimson, this week published in the January issue of Foreign Affairs a defense of the Nurnberg verdicts.* It was not, of course, the last word, but it was authoritative (Stimson had been Secretary of War when the trials were planned), and it was written in language non-lawyers could understand...
Most of the Indies Dutch now realize that the old days will never come again. The Dutch at home are beginning to understand that Ir. Soekarno & Co. are attempting to engineer a complete break, economic as well as political. As a result Holland's earlier, more tolerant attitude toward Indonesian home rule is stiffening. But at best the Dutch faced a pretty grim prospect. Sardonic Hubertus van Mook put it this way: "There will be shooting for a long time in Indonesia, but we hope to get it on a friendlier basis...
Most U.S. Britain-baiting is directed against the British imperial position. Although U.S. strategic planning leans very heavily on the Empire, anti-imperialist U.S. tradition makes it difficult for Americans to understand Britain's very real Empire problems (see below...
...experiment has a practical angle. When geologists understand the mechanism of oil formation, they can recognize rock strata capable of producing oil, and look for the putative product...
...direction of our foreign policy in the last three years . . . . because I know a good deal about it from the inside.* But I say to you that there can be no direction of foreign policy. . . except a political direction, because government and foreign relations are politics. The churches must understand that, must study politics and must find a gospel which helps a Christian politician...