Word: anglo-american
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Taking full advantage of public curiosity he cast his whole speech in the form of an account of his trip to meet the President. It was a great deal more than that-an exposition of Anglo-American policy, an excoriation of the Axis, an appeal for world support-but in every line of it he held his listeners in suspense as to what more he might reveal about the conference...
...wife's over-gallant, pestiferous insistence on not being left out of the fun; some neatly managed Anglo-American propaganda; a safe outcome for the adventure, with the tagline: "This isn't the end for any of us. It's just the beginning...
Equally unfortunate, to most Britons, is the setup of the Government's Petroleum Board, which is headed by representatives of the Shell, Anglo-American and Anglo-Iranian oil companies. The Board buys oil from these companies, resells it to them for distribution. Retail profits are fixed, but the oil companies can set the retail price, presumably take a profit on bulk sales to the Board. Cockney comment on the Petroleum Board: "Oh my, ain't it a luvly...
...other part in Argentina. I have Brazilian, Argentine, American, English, German, Italian, Hungarian and French friends, pro-Axis and anti-Axis friends, and because of this have been able to observe a great deal in regard to the political and economic situation between South America and other nations. There is a lot of palaver about the "Good Neighbor Policy." . . . Great Britain and the U.S. are very eager to entice all the South American nations on their side. The Axis powers are very busy also. Well, the first thing the Anglo-American Governments should do is to send the right kind...
...Burma could China reach the sea. Step by step the Japanese had moved southward to cut outside maritime communications with China. Last week, although the U.S. State Department still minimized the Russo-Japanese Pact, more & more officials were realizing the effectiveness of Axis grand strategy: to destroy the Anglo-American position in the world by isolating the U.S. Said Pundit Walter Lippmann, espousing this view: The issue of 1941 is "whether the United States, cut off from Asia, from Europe, from Africa, from South America, and from the British Isles, is to be left alone, entirely isolated, incompletely armed...