Word: freedom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...among Western democracies was far more important than technological advantage or more atomic bombs, Monty insisted, and it might mean "some small loss of sovereignty for the common purpose." But, said Montgomery earnestly, "the premium is not very great. The dividend will be enormous-it will be peace and freedom...
Tsiang urged a moral judgment against Russia, a denial of aid and recognition to the Chinese Communists. "Let the General Assembly say to the millions of fighters for freedom in China: 'We are with...
Inevitably, the decision provoked some shudders. Could good grow from the fresh, unquiet grave of evil? The U.S. and its postwar Allies had decided that the answer must be yes, if Europe (and all the West) was to have peace, prosperity and freedom. The German who more firmly than any other assured the U.S. that its decision had been wise, its hope not misplaced, was an aging, clear-eyed politician from the wine country along the Rhine: Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, without doubt the most important German since Hitler...
This is the land which Chancellor Konrad Adenauer must, with Western help, lead to democratic order and freedom...
...Freedom of speech and press, and a fortiori, of thought and opinion, are guaranteed to all Americans by the First Amendment. The only limitation placed upon this freedom is the "clear and present danger" doctrine first enunciated by Justice Holmes in Shenck v. U. S., 249 Us 47 (1919). It is important to note that this doctrine applies when freedom of speech is abused to the point of a person screaming "fire" in a crowded theatre when he knows that no danger of fire exists. It is quite a different matter to apply this limiting doctrine to the realm...