Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...making friends with Japan on the same basis. Whatever may have been our idealistic notions a while ago, we cannot save China. Japan knew that we could not do so. A realistic view of the present situation would indicate that a cessation of fighting would save more lives and prevent further useless destruction. Does it make any practical difference to us who owns the rubber and the tin, provided we can trade with the owner? If we do not like the owner, then again the only argument worth making is still an argument that can be backed up by force...
...would do what the old Constitution sought to prevent-invest supreme authority in a single dictator. It would probably abolish both the Senate and Chamber of Deputies, substituting for them a single assembly of powerful yes-men. Dispatches from Vichy forecast the establishment of a "corporative" state in which, under Marshal Pétain as titular Chief of State, Vice Premier Laval, General Weygand and Minister of the Interior Marquet would form a power-wielding triumvirate. A regime similar to that of Generalissimo Franco, with whom 84-year-old Marshal Pétain was "tremendously impressed," was generally predicted. While...
Hoping to play his neutrality ace for complete independence of all Ireland, Prime Minister Eamon de Valera stubbornly refused to compromise. "In order to prevent misapprehension," he declared last week, "I desire to repeat that the Government has no intention of departing from the policy of neutrality adopted last September. ..." Representing land-owning Londonderrys and other Conservatives in Northern Ireland, Viscount Craigavon was equally adamant. "Mr. de Valera is once again blackmailing the British Government to end partition," he accused...
Mockery of democracy was symbolized by what happened to President Cárdenas himself. He could not even vote at his own polls in Mexico City because a Camachista general had closed the booth to prevent 800 Almazanistas from voting...
...refugees back home in time to take care of the harvest, organized transportation and even supplied vehicles. Young Nazi soldiers were so ultra polite that Parisians saw in their conduct an implied criticism of their own customary rudeness. French authorities ordered the destruction of abandoned pets to prevent hydrophobia. Food shortage became acute and decrees restricting the use of flour for pastry, and forbidding the serving of butter in restaurants were issued. Money was scarce as banks remained closed and there was talk of municipal scrip being issued. With over 1,200,000 persons jobless in the Paris area alone...