Word: basic
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...people can govern itself. It may be that we will have to broaden the base of these assumptions in order to establish a more vigorous, functioning, cooperative society. It may be that we will have to consent to a loss of some personal liberties in order to preserve the basic liberty of choosing those who are to govern. We need men now who do not fear change and do not count the bookkeeping cost of reaching the goal we absolutely must reach-a strongly armed nation, and a working democracy. As TIME points out, Roosevelt...
...cautioned: "We should not let our fear of the fifth column cause us to surrender to the sixth column, who would mistakenly use the fears of the people and the confusion of the hour to cause Americans to strike down the Bill of Rights and to surrender the recent basic social advances...
...enough; the only force the U. S. can quickly bring to the conflict is a moral and political power. Organizing the democracies in a federal union, with a guarantee that the German people would be admitted to this union when they retired to their frontiers and restored their basic rights as men, would help to upset the German Government from within, and enable the democracies to coordinate their action strongly enough to win against Hitler. Calling...
Author Streit back for an ovation, the clubwomen voted, 1,092-10-8, to urge the program of a world-wide federal union as the basic objective of U. S. efforts...
...international order (in which so many of us had placed our earlier hopes)-until that time the national state must command our loyalties. I have no more sympathy than many undergraduates I know for certain types of Anglophile and Francophile enthusiasm deriving from sentimental considerations and unconnected with basic American interests. I, too, have many close friends in France and England. But I have such friends as well in Germany and elsewhere. I should ask nothing better than to gather all of these men of good will and, like the Acharnians, to make our separate peace and found that...