Word: dilemmas
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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When William Allen White recently said, "any talk of a stalemate victory that leaves Hitler in control of Europe is appeasement and thereby treason to world democracy," he touched on the dilemma which American faces today. The simple, brutal fact is this: there is not a ghost of a chance that England, alone, can break Germany's stranglehold on the continent of Europe. The best we can hope for is a "stalemate victory...
Patiently, Laski explains why. Capitalist democracy is "at best a fragile thing," a delicate compromise between privilege and the masses. But "a democracy that is to wage totalitarian war must end economic and social privilege as the price of victory." With a serene twinkle Professor Laski views the dilemma of the middle classes. On one hand, the fascists threaten them; on the other, so do the masses. Says...
...nation to deliberate or unwitting falsifications of fact." Now he said there had been systematic falsifications, not unwitting but deliberate; that he had decided to tell the people what these falsities were; that the Democratic National Committee would pay his expenses. The President had eased himself out of the dilemma that always confronts a candidate in office, the dilemma that had embarrassed Wilson and Coolidge, had broken Herbert Hoover's heart: if you campaign while in office, people think you're neglecting your work; if you don't, your opponent mops the floor with...
...belatedly realized the social problem presented by this underpaid army of 15,000 who have been an essential to movie making since the first director photographed the first crowd. At a loss for an answer, the producers met with the Screen Actors Guild, appointed a committee to study the dilemma...
...chagrined, debated what to do next at Bethlehem. Mr. Roosevelt had to decide whether to jeopardize his Labor support or his politically potent defense program-or whether there was some other way out. At week's end he still kept dilemma...