Word: backed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that Roosevelt II has partially divided the U. S. Fleet, sending its bulk back to the Pacific, a cardinal Navy doctrine which Alfred Mahan formulated is news. Just before Roosevelt I retired from the Presidency, Alfred Mahan asked him to urge William Howard Taft "on no account to divide the battleship force between the two coasts. . . ." Whereupon T. R. wrote "Dear Will: . . . I should obey no direction of Congress and pay heed to no popular sentiment, if it went wrong in so vital a matter. . . . Keep the battle fleet either in one ocean or the other. . . ." Roosevelt I qualified...
...stanch supporter of Appeaser Chamberlain, Sir Nevile's return led to rumors that the British Government was again turning tail and was preparing to lead Ally France into another Munich settlement. From Foreign Office spokesmen in London, however, came the assurance that Sir Nevile took back to Berlin a message from the Chamberlain Government which: 1) advised Führer Hitler not to reject flatly President Roosevelt's appeal, 2) warned that Britain might answer further German aggression with peacetime conscription...
...French Ambassador Robert Coulondre was also expected to return soon, and Washington let it be known that U. S. Ambassador Hugh Wilson would be shipped back if Hitler's speech is "conciliatory...
Last week while Britain sent her Ambassador back to Berlin (see p. 22) to seek peace, she busied herself at home with preparations...
...arms, Carlists have been hiding them. Carlists have been even more vociferous than Britons in demanding the departure of the Italians, who if anything are more unpopular in northern Spain than Germans. So fearful was Dictator Franco of Carlist trouble that soon after the Loyalist surrender he hastily sent back to Spanish Morocco 80,000 Moorish regulars commanded by able General Juan Yague, soon announced that he would restore all the private property of ex-King Alfonso XIII and of all the King's relatives to the fourth degree...