Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British Commonwealth and the nations of Western Europe wish to enjoy closer association with us, and if for our part we wish similarly to link ourselves with them, the way . . . is clear. All they need to do is adopt written constitutions and apply for membership and all we need do is accept them. . . . Great Britain could come into the union, for example, as four States. . . . Canada could constitute another State. Australia, New Zealand and the contiguous islands might form still another...
...that Russia wants this responsibility. In any event, she is not liable to turn the peace conference over to joy riders. The traditional concept of a United Nations victory with a grateful, but weakened Russia grudgingly admitted to the peace conference through the back door is no more than wishful thinking now. If we wish to be an effective force in writing the peace we must begin to pull an oar now before it is too late. Sidney Entmacher...
...several branches of the Army during his seven years of service, was assigned to the Statistical School from Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, last June as one of the original cadre of the School. The officers and enlisted men, the civilian instructor staff, and the secretaries of the Statistical School, all wish him the best of luck and "Good Shooting...
...thing the U.S. troops were learning was a healthy respect for the British. Said one American who watched the action at Fondouk: "I wish that those American strategists who beef about the British in the Stork Club could have breathed the dust of this valley today...
...wish solemnly to state here, and with the greatest emphasis, that if, at the conclusion of war, our rights are not respected and our long and passionate devotion to freedom is not taken into consideration, all Poles, irrespective of religious or political creed, will be united to the last man to resist any claims which aim at the sovereignty of our country, from whatever quarter they might be raised...