Word: britain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Admiralty man in London inquired last week whether the U. S. expects Great Britain to let any nation or group of nations neutralize an area extending as far as 1,000 miles out on the high seas. The London Times said out loud: "Any action taken by an American Navy to enforce [the Declaration] would . . . amount to an act of war and nothing else...
Secretary Hull put the Declaration of Panama on a strictly if-as-and-when basis: if belligerent France, Great Britain or Germany decline to recognize the American Neutral Zone, the American Republics will "consult," and see what is to be done next...
...Perhaps the day will come." Now that Poland was subjugated and Germany was on such excellent terms with all her neighbors-including Britain and France, as far as he was concerned-Mr. Hitler wondered what all the shooting was about on the Western Front. At this point Adolf Hitler figuratively vanished into the drapery behind him and a composite character made up of Aristide Briand, Ramsay MacDonald, Gustav Stresemann, Neville Chamberlain, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Cordell Hull suddenly took his place. The change of word and wind was nothing short of fantastic. Pacific, idealistic, hopeful, tenderly humane and sweetly vague...
Peace by Conference? What States would confer? If the conference were five-sided-Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Russia-the Nazis would have the majority edge. Would Italy sit in with Russia? Benito Mussolini has been trying for years to get a four-power conference together, but in his plan Russia was the wallflower. That Russia is very much interested in current peace-talking was evident from the official reaction to Hitler's speech. Said J. Stalin's Izvestia this week: "One may respect or hate Hitlerism, just as any other system of political views. This...
...Allies in drawing up a set of war aims would be to satisfy, and perhaps enlist the sympathies of, neutral onlookers -particularly in the U. S. For the perplexed U. S. people strongly desire to know exactly what kind of world it is that the Governments of Great Britain and France are fighting to protect or gain. Nowhere was this U. S. perplexity better expressed than in a letter to that font of British Governmental information, the London Times, from one who has lectured, instructed, amused and scared Americans by the thousand...