Word: armsful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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WASHINGTON--The Senate Foreign Relations Committee today received an Administration neutrality revision bill containing minor concessions to President Roosevelt's isolationist opponents but providing for repeal of the mandatory arms embargo and the substitution of a modified cash-and-carry policy of dealing with belligerents.
Like the bombshell of the German-Russian Pact (TIME, Aug. 28), it changed everything. The overworked boys in the German Propaganda Ministry, shipping outworn drivel about Polish atrocities, felt its influence. Russians behind their frontiers watched their new German friends approaching, mobilized, advanced with full arms to meet them (see...
Advantages of Japan against her new competitor are: 1) her supply-source is prodigious-she has big (two or three feet across), murderous-looking king crabs, each of whose arms provides two cans of crab steak, 2) her crabs do not require treatment to prevent discoloration.
Next day President Roosevelt's neutrality proclamation put the lid on any more shipments until Congress should revise the neutrality act. To planemakers this meant little. In taking over $100,000,000 worth of foreign orders in recent months, they had put a clause in their contracts requiring foreign...
It must be remembered that this war is not only a war of arms; it is also a war of cultures. From the democracies' viewpoint, this war is a war to preserve existing cultures and standards of values. Thus the greatest emphasis possible in the post-war period will be...