Word: conflicts
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Germany cannot invade America even if Britain falls. 2) the U. S. can and will do business with the Nazis even if necessary to cartelize the trade. 3) If the U. S. convoys British shipping, that act "is sure to put us in the conflict...
Nazis v. Nazarenes. As exiled Nobel Prizeman Thomas Mann said last week: "There can be no real peace between the cross and the swastika. National socialism is essentially unchristian and antichristian. . . ." Though the conflict between Christianity and Naziism seems inevitable now, it did not seem so when Hitler came into power. Catholics and Protestants alike helped his coup d'état. Martin Niemoller himself supported him. And one of Hitler's first acts as Chancellor was to declare: "In the two Christian creeds lie the most important factors for the preservation of the German people." Only in secret...
...John Brown (Raymond Massey) and his followers, then engaged in smuggling slaves out of the South. On this peg is hung a moving and tragic theme: that these friends, fighting side by side, are innocently feeding a flame which will soon surround them, find them enemies in an irrepressible conflict. With the help of Director Michael Curtiz' well-tempered direction and Massey's passionate interpretation of Zealot Brown. Santa Fe Trail, in spite of its hackneyed romance, becomes a brilliant and grim account of the Civil War background...
...many ways, the fate of the world hangs on American actions just now. If the U. S. becomes involved in conflict either in Europe or the Pacific, civilization will go up in flames." Relations between Japan and the U. S., he explained, "apparently depend largely on Japan's continental and South Seas policies," but "if the United States refuses to sell us oil and other supplies, we must get them elsewhere...
...Camacho is primarily an Army man and went off to his first revolution when he was 17, but he is a very special kind of soldier-so special that his enemies nicknamed him El Soldado Desconocido, the unknown soldier. His specialty was persuasion. Instead of meeting rebels in frontal conflict, he would take an airplane, fly straight to their camp, sit them down on a log and pacify them with sympathetic conversation and promises-which, surprisingly enough for a Mexican general, he kept...