Word: existences
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...answered in scores of ways by columnists, reporters, editorial writers. But, by & large, the nation's interest was in the forest, not the trees. The average citizen knew that because of shillyshally, lack of compromise between capital & labor, failure to see what was ahead, France had ceased to exist, Poland was in chains, Britain had its back to the wall. What was wrong with U. S. defense...
...assumed all the characteristics of a political and social revolution," wrote Popolo di Roma, proposing "some beatings-up" for those who read the French-language Swiss press. "These are the prophets of disaster, the professional alarmists, the convinced pessimists, the empty brains and the sour stomachs who still exist among us here and there." Referring to Benito Mussolini's recent order to jettison "the remaining petty bourgeois ballast," Popolo di Roma suggested that nothing remained but to begin...
...with uncompleted construction. . . . We hope that the world situation may soon improve. But we are bound to be prepared for a long period of possible danger. Who can say with assurance that we shall not need for our defense or peaceful pursuits every possible shipbuilding resource, particularly those that exist and may be developed in the interior of our country? ... I am preparing to press for immediate construction- of this project...
Although the group is independent of any other club or any government, similar organizations exist at Dartmouth, Wellesley, and Radcliffe, and the Pan American Union at Washington has expressed interest in the work. The Harvard society is attempting to expand the movement by instigating the formation of clubs in other universities and South America...
...speaker compared the current situation to Rome in the fifth century when culture and civilization were over thrown by the German invasion and driven to monasteries for 600 years. "Today there are no monasteries or any places where freedom from world events can exist," he commented. "Inefficiency saved civilization in the fifth century, but the efficient darkness' that might settle on the world of tomorrow world stand a much better chances of stamping...