Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...refusal to take any of those 'steps short of war'--which by very definition are steps in the direction of war. The alternatives are few. Economic participation, by every test of past experience, must lead to military participation. However hard the decision, the American people must resolutely determine to avoid all roads to war and pursue only the paths of peace...
...Mexico. They may have wanted a seedling base for eventual military operations: the area is less than 500 air miles from Texas, less than 1,300 from the Panama Canal. But the most plausible theory was that they wanted a base for getting oil across Mexico, in order to avoid the uncertainties and tolls of the sea voyage via the Canal. Some oil for Japan was already being transported across Mexico by rail. Last week Mexicans tried to borrow money in the U. S. to expand rail lines leading across Mexico's throat to Salina Cruz from single...
George Washington Slept Here (by George S. Kaufman & Moss Hart, produced by Sam H. Harris). One of the high comic themes of American life concerns the nervous city people who want to get back to the soil-but not so far back as to avoid rural electrification. To this thesis Kaufman & Hart now devote their practiced wits. Ernest Truex plays the part of a little man who buys a Pennsylvania farm where Washington supposedly bedded (actually it turns out to have been Benedict Arnold). The acid Jean Dixon is his wife, forced among other pastoral ordeals to watch a well...
Attempting to avoid taking a stand on war issues, members of the organization discuss the legalities involved in conscientious objection or the possible bases of future world peace...
...Above all, we must select leaders whose promises we can trust. . . . We question that the men who were unable to foresee . . . conditions in time to avoid them, who could not foresee the war in time to prepare for it, who refused to believe the reports of rearming abroad when there was still time to take action, are now competent to carry this nation successfully through a great crisis. Under their leadership, we have alienated the most powerful military nations of both Europe and Asia, at a time when we ourselves are unprepared for action, and while the people...