Word: weakens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most Canadians still have no idea what the Pan American Union is. The others ask: What has it ever done? A majority of the Dominion's people still look to London and are likely to oppose any entangling alliance which may weaken the bond with the British Commonwealth. French Canadians want no part of Latin America's troubles. Orderly Canadians regard Latin Americans as Latin folk given to turmoil and revolution...
...economic cloudburst" he said, would weaken the power of the United States to aid democracies in their fight against "totalitarianism" and leave free nations everywhere "easy targets for external pressures and alien ideologies...
Face-Shaving. While most of the princes were with Bhopal in hoping to weaken the central Government and strengthen their position among neglected subjects at home, each played the game according to local ground rules. Hindu and Sikh princes near territories which Mohamed Ali Jinnah claims for Pakistan opposed the creation of a Moslem state. Prominent among them was the suave, thoroughly Westernized Maharaja of Kapurthala. Though a Sikh, the 74-year-old Maharaja shaves and cuts his hair, in violation of the Sikh ban on removing any hair from the body. But now His Highness, seeing Indian independence grow...
Witnesses testified that the C.P.U.S.A. was not a party but a conspiracy, an agency of Russia designed to weaken the U.S. Said FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover: "The Communist [he pronounced it Commonist] Party is a fifth column if there ever was one. It is far better organized than anything the Nazis had." But he felt that outlawing the party was no answer to the problem...
...demanded a relatively unified Germany; France, which has one of Europe's most closely centralized administrations, demanded a loose German federation. The issue was not really one of political forms: Russia wanted to curry favor with the Germans, and France in accordance with her traditional policy wanted to weaken Germany...