Word: britain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...During World War 1, U. S. Secretaries of State Bryan and Lansing constantly protested such searches as contrary to international law. In practice, neutrals have come to accept the hard-boiled point of view of Great Britain's Wartime Prime Minister David Lloyd George: that since the attitude of a belligerent is governed by "the exigencies of deadly strife, the country which is determined at all costs to remain neutral must be prepared to pocket its pride and put up with repeated irritations and infringements of its interests . . . and should the difficulties of neutrality prove too great...
...entailed, he was in duty bound to state his ends clearly, hold himself in check in so far as those ends were not the manifest ends of the U. S. President Roosevelt's ends were known, definite, unneutral: by every means short of war,1) to help Great Britain and France win their war, and 2) to drive Adolf Hitler and Hitlerism from the world. He defined these aims well before World War II began, when many thought that in foretelling the Crisis and its ripening into war, he was whistling for the wind. More eloquent than any poll...
...Paul last week Mrs. Frank Kellogg, relict of Calvin Coolidge's Secretary of State, Nobel Peace Prize winner and Ambassador to Great Britain, talked like a loyal wife. Referring to her husband's belief that "the world had at last reached a stage of civilized thought which ... abhorred armed conflict," she asked: "How can it be otherwise than that enduring peace will at last-and shortly-triumph...
Mussolini also was reported to have suggested that all other questions, ranging from colonies and disarmament to an economic new deal, should be dealt with in a five-power conference by Germany, Russia, France, Britain and Italy...
...doubts that alteration of the Johnson Act, which prohibits leans to defaulter nations, would affect our trade with Britain. "I think she probably has ample resources to pay in cash for all of the goods she will need to buy from us," he stated...