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Under that understanding Britain, with her world empire, kept the seas open and safe-all that U. S. commerce could ask. Actually conceived by Foreign Secretary George Canning, the Monroe Doctrine had been made a workable arrangement-for that Doctrine was in fact a deal. In 1823 Canning agreed with President Monroe that Europe should not attempt to extend her holdings in the Western Hemisphere. With the backing of Britain, it became practical for the U. S. to insure its own security by preventing any other power from expanding in the Western Hemisphere. To all intents Britain had abdicated...
...look to you as our armory and we ask no more than this...
...name for your article." Whatever the name of the Minsky article, it is still pretty stark. Bert Popkin, business representative of Motion Picture Machine Operators Union Local 306, last week ejaculated: "I used to work in the old Central Burlesque when Billy Minsky was there and if you ask me the shows are dirtier now than they were then." The delicate question before Manhattan: whether to clean up the girl shows and call them "burlesque," or leave them dirty and call them "Follies...
What newsmen most wanted to know, and none dared ask, was what, if anything, the nomination of Wendell Willkie had done to Mr. Roosevelt's thoughts about Term III. Whatever the answer (the U. S. will have it after the Democrats convene July 15), G. 0. P.'s Willkie turned the last trace of Third Term opposition in the Democratic Party into a frantic demand that Mr. Roosevelt run. Even old Jack Garner, who seldom forgives and never forgets, sadly made up his mind that Franklin Roosevelt was the only Democrat who could beat this man Willkie. Janizaries...
...easy. On the contrary, he handed Rumanian Minister Gheorghe Davidescu a brusque note demanding Bessarabia and northern Bucovina within 24 hours. The ceding of northern Bucovina, which, unlike Bessarabia, Russia never owned, would repay Russia for waiting 20 years for Bessarabia, said Viacheslav Mikhailovich. When Minister Davidescu returned to ask for negotiations to determine the procedure of transfer, Premier Molotov said flatly that the Red Army would begin to move in at 2 that afternoon and gave the Rumanian Army four days to clear out of both provinces...