Word: acted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outward signs were false, there was no lack of apprehension in the Administration. Most Departments of the Government were hard at work behind closed doors cogitating, calculating, planning-to buffer the shock if & when war came. Under the Neutrality Act and various New Deal laws vesting power in the Chief Executive, the prospect was for more one-man government than the U. S. has yet seen when not at war itself. The job of all executive branches was to compile data and memoranda to guide Franklin Roosevelt should bombs and shells start flying in Czechoslovakia...
...Japan-China, Mr. Roosevelt has so far been able to preserve the fiction that a "state of war" does not exist because it has never been "declared." He has been able to do so, without threat of impeachment, because the sentiment in Congress which rammed through the Neutrality Act is on the side of the party which the Act, if enforced, would hurt most. Unless war between Czechoslovakia, Germany and other powers were formally declared, the President could again preserve the fiction and all U. S. hands would be free from the Neutrality Act's rigid restrictions...
...would seem that the French mobilizing of one million men and Chamberlain' about breaking of the conversations with Hitler were an attempt to regain loss of leadership and to act upon the sentiments of the French and British people. Perhaps Chamberlain and Daladier took to heart Anthony Eden's statement that "continued retreat can only lead to ever widening confusion" or Maxim Litivinoff's cry that Britain and France were "avoiding a problematical war today in return for a certain and large-scale war tomorrow." Perhaps Hitler raised his demands to a limit which could not even be acceptable...
From the impending conflict in Europe our United States have remained aloof. President Roosevelt and Mr. Hull have said nothing that more than point the direction of our sympathies. Their hands, unfortunately, are tied by the 1936 Neutrality Act. But there is no doubt among the foreign leaders that America, with its natural bigness, could avoid a world war by stepping into the present crisis and arbitrating. If war comes, certainly the American stand will determine its outcome. Why not speak now and show the enemy what must be the result if they begin war? Pressure for the repeal...
Because more members of the Freshman class wish to live at college than usual in previous years, the University has obtained the use of a building on Quincy Street to accommodate the overflow, it has been announced. It will house about 18 students and Vernon H. Struck '38 will act as proctor...