Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...resolution compelling the President to declare arms embargoes against both sides in any war which may break out before Feb. 29, 1936. Sign it he did because "the objective is wholly good," but not without announcing that he wanted it changed: "It is the policy of this Government to avoid being drawn into wars between other nations, but it is a fact that no Congress and no Executive can foresee all possible future situations. ...In other words the inflexible provisions might drag us into war instead of keeping...
Such news started rolling across the U. S. a wave of fear, of indignation, of determination to avoid war at all costs. With a mighty splash the wave broke over a jittery Congress, sweeping to passage the first neutrality law in U. S. history designed, not to observe international amenities, but to keep the nation...
When the War began in 1914, the U. S. had no statute to help it avoid entanglement in other nations' armed conflicts. After proclaiming U. S. neutrality exactly as President Washington had done in 1793. President Wilson could only plead with the nation to be neutral "in fact as well as in name ... in thought as well as in action." Any such neutrality, it soon appeared, was clearly impossible. Because the flag followed them wherever they went, U. S. citizens were free to risk not only their own but their nation's safety by traveling through war zones...
...Representatives, thinking only of political effects, yowled and yammered for another year of 12? cotton, warned the New Deal it would lose all its Southern friends if it did otherwise. An able compromiser, President Roosevelt finally approved the AAA plan announced last week. To guarantee farmers 12? and still avoid having the Government acquire their surplus at higher than market prices, the Government would 1) lend only 9? so that the farmers would get more by selling their product than by borrowing on it from the Government, and 2) pay farmers a direct subsidy to make up the difference between...
...until our entry into the war in April, 1917, is a challenging and entertaining picture of democracy slowly succumbing to the war-fever. As such, "Road to War" should be read by every literate American citizen, for only through an understanding of past errors can we hope to avoid future catastrophe...