Word: west
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...West's moral community broke under the impact of great historic forces. It began to neglect a simple truth-that liberty, as Edmund Burke put it, cannot exist "without order and virtue...
...Bread & Beer Alone. Consequently, Communism (or any similar manifestation) cannot be stopped in the long run either by diplomacy, wealth or war, though McGuire thinks all three may have to be applied as intermediate measures. The West can stand against Communism only if it will put its own house in order-an order that will end the insane fissions of industrial civilization. The West's moral community must be renewed...
McGuire believes that the only thing that can save the West is a supreme effort of will: "However the story ends, our business is to resist the bastard fatalism which now infects us ... Freedom is not found in fatalism and passivity. Freedom is for men of good will. Freedom is for the brave...
...West had scored. Moscow reacted with a thunderous press and radio barrage intended to intimidate all those who signed the pact, or who wanted to sign (e.g., Italy, who is being invited to join this week). In Norway's far north, where the 122½-mile Russian border is guarded on the Norwegian side by only a few ski patrols, there were rumors of Russian troop movements...
...meeting in secret underground. It is being nourished by the Soviet-zone concentration camps, which are no more decent than those of the Nazis, by the Soviet blockade of Berlin, by the division of Germany, by the inescapably antidemocratic machinery of military occupation, by the bitter polemics between East & West, by divisions among the Western powers that keep them from forming a coherent policy of their own. It is born of the whole series of tragedies which have whittled down the moral stature of those who conquered Germany...