Word: waited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...misunderstandings about the nature of war and the Treaty of Varsailles, propagated for twenty years, a confusion, created by directing attention to incidental rather than to central points. Mankind suffers room many moral and economic ills, but a peace treaty can establish economic justice or moral perfection, or wait for them. Peace can create favorable conditions for social progress and spiritual peace; in itself it does not depend upon them. It depends upon the enforcement of law by the united force of law-abiding nations...
...short synopsis is given by the HDC release. "Dena Rosita, the lovely heroine, promises to wait for her finance, who must go abroad. She waits, preparing her trousseau for an immediate wedding. She waits 20 years in vain, the whole town pities her. But Rosita, in a magnificent last act, reveals her secret life, the happiness she has had in dreaming...
...misunderstandings about the nature of war and the Treaty of Versailles, propagated for twenty years, a confusion, created by directing attention to incidental rather than to central points. Mankind suffers from many moral and economic ills, but no peace treaty can establish economic justice or moral perfection, or wait for them. Peace can create favorable conditions for social progress and spiritual life, in itself it does not depend upon them. It depends upon the enforcement of law by the united force of law-abiding nations...
From North Africa, Private John Ganz wrote to his 19-year-old wife Gloria: "Oh, boy, how I miss you. I can hardly wait till I get home. (I hope the censor doesn't mind me writing this)." By the time Gloria Ganz got the letter a blue-penciled footnote had been added: "The censor wishes he was home...
...Ordinary. The world that has been carrying its burden of war around the sun has carried also the daily routines of the old and ordinary life of these plain people. Before the furnace heat of the Indian spring, in this pre-monsoon season, the 110,000,000 Indian farmers wait in their countless villages for the southwest wind to bring the rains of June. One-sixth of the earth's people, with their 225 languages, their 2,300 castes and 39 provinces, are living through their ancient order of life, not touching the 44,000,000 untouchables, not harming...