Word: movements
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gesture meant that De Gaulle had come, not to capture Lebanon and Syria, but to liberate them. In making it the General called attention to the peculiar strength and the peculiar weakness of his movement. Free France is an army of 40,000 men, an air force of 1,000 and a navy of 17 fighting ships-but Free France does not pretend to be a government. To General de Gaulle and his brave, fanatical followers Free France is the trustee of the French Republic, and one day, he hopes and believes, it will return France to the representatives...
...first organized attempt to unite the spirit and forces of resistance. Symbols are strangely powerful in politics, and a symbol had been found for a future revolution against Fascism. If kept alive, V might come to stand, in Germany and all conquered countries, for a great underground movement against Naziism, for democracy's vast Column...
...meeting represented four years of Schairer planning. An authority on European education and youth, he ran a central student-aid bureau for German universities from 1921-33, launched a Werkstudenten movement whereby thousands of poor boys were enabled to attend universities. When Nazis seized his bureau headquarters and its $6,000,000 treasury in 1933, he fled Germany. In 1937 he became head of London University's Department of International Studies. Already expecting World War II, Dr. Schairer and a few fellow educators began to plan for another post-war world...
...knew a remedy for Europe's ills: the highly successful Danish educational system and economy. Feature of this system was Denmark's Folk Schools, which taught Danish peasants breadth of vision, thus making them better democrats, by means of poetry, history, religion. From the Folk School movement sprang agricultural schools, cooperatives, a new system of dairy (instead of grain) farming and decentralized industry, which had made Denmark one of the most prosperous nations in Europe...
...will organize a new democratic world youth movement...