Word: weakens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...obstacle to lasting world peace. Deeply engrained in institutions and men, nationalism cannot be abolished by creating a world organization or plan of any species. Certainly, the framers of the United Nations never envisioned it as vanishing national prides and interests, but, rather, hoped that the new organization might weaken the foundations of old habits and start nations along the road to one world...
...Failure to work alongside the Communists... on limited short-term objectives...can only serve to weaken and finally split the liberal movement." Thus spoke the Crimson on October 7, despite the oft-demonstrated fact that the purpose of communists in joining liberal organizations is to turn htose organizations into pawns for communist objectives. Perhaps this point in itself does not give the Harvard Liberal Union, or any other progressive organization espousing democratic deals, moral sanction for driving Communist Party members from its ranks...
...getting arms from "a foreign power." Britain indignantly denied any part in the revolt (causing New York Post Columnist Edgar Ansel Mowrer to exclaim: "then fate is pro-British"). Knowing Britons hinted that they would not be so foolish as to stir up a tribal revolt which would further weaken the Teheran Government, make it still more vulnerable to Russian pressure...
...Liberal Union is more than a case of whether the Liberal Union is to be considered as a genuinely democratic organization. Failure to work alongside the Communists, or the AYD, or what you will, on limited short-term objectives on which all happen to agree can only serve to weaken and finally split the liberal movement in America...
...Empire, and to strike at Germany through Turkey. It promised Arab leaders independence from the Turks and self-government through most (the Arabs now say all) of the Middle East. At the same time Britain sought to rouse world Jewry (including German Jews) to support the Allied cause and weaken Germany. In his famous Declaration, Foreign Secretary Arthur (later Lord) Balfour informed Lord Rothschild, the prominent British Zionist, that "His Majesty's Government view with favor the establishment in Palestine of a National Home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavors to facilitate the achievement...