Word: vitale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...goal of American foreign policy is to establish in the world a just and a lasting peace . . . Our foreign policy in this troubled world can no longer be a passive, a dead-a negative thing. It must be a live and a vital thing. We will wage peace, we will wage peace with all the vigor, and the imagination and the skill and energy with which we waged...
...perceptive, quietly stirring books published this week, an old and a young American gave their testimony about mysticism. A Call to What Is Vital (Macmillan; $2) is the last book written by Rufus M. Jones, a Quaker elder statesman until his death last June at 85. The Seven Storey Mountain* (Harcourt Brace; $3) is the autobiography of Thomas Merton, 33, a convert to Roman Catholicism who is now a Trappist monk in Kentucky...
Still Speaking. Jones observes: "Vital religion cannot be maintained and preserved on the theory that God dealt with our human race only in the far past ages, and that the Bible is the only evidence we have that our God is a living, revealing, communicating God. If God ever spoke, He is still speaking ... He is the Great I Am, not a Great...
There is no doubt that the U.S. and the Kremlin consider that they have conflicting vital interests. The Communists have always believed (and almost always said) that their mission is worldwide victory for their system; and that their own survival could not be assured in a world partly nonCommunist. Since the U.S. began to understand, about two years ago, that the Communists actually believed this, the U.S. has recognized its essential conflict with Russia...
Hurrying home, Wang put his best troops, under trusted General Wu Hua-wen, on a line defending the capital's most vital points-the main airfield, the railroad station and the commercial district, all outside the old city wall. Suddenly, on the fourth day of battle, Wu turned traitor, led some 8,000 of his men over into the Communist lines. Tsinan's outer defenses collapsed...