Word: westerners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...definitely Mr. Clement Attlee, Prime Minister of Great Britain, who paved the way for the freedom of Asian countries and thereby brought the Western and Eastern civilizations into closer association...
...thanks be chosen on a higher spiritual level before being put into the form of a Litany? And why must democracy and freedom always be equated with the ends of civilization and man? This can only be so in a pagan society. For the Christian religion, upon which Western civilization is, after all, based, these concepts must forever be means and not ends...
...West, Fla. "We have with us today a distinguished contributor to the Federal Register" said Ross. As the score of grinning correspondents and photographers could plainly see, the contributor was Harry Truman, who pulled up a wide-armed writing chair, sat down and posed a gold pen over a Western Union press form...
...concern would be "organizing the unorganized on a world basis, reorganizing the disorganized." From the Brussels headquarters organizers will go out to help infant labor movements in industrially backward countries -e.g., Korea and India. Representatives will be sent to watch labor conditions in the colonial areas of Africa. In Western Europe, I.C.F.T.U. will concentrate on the struggle to free labor unions from crippling Red infiltration...
...Grotewohl's conscience, and the scorn of his former Socialist friends, seemed to trouble him. Last year he paid a secret call on U.S. and British officials in Berlin, offered to desert the Communists and work for the West. His only condition was that the Socialists in the Western zone welcome him back into the party. Socialist Leader Kurt Schumacher scornfully refused. Grotewohl continued serving the Russians. When the Reds set up their puppet regime in Germany, they made Grotewohl chancellor. In his fine, freshly painted office, the chancellor found little work to do; the Russians ran the show...