Word: britain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...five hours after this proclamation was issued, the U. S. lived by the rules of traditional Neutrality. Plane makers continued to speed battle craft toward embarkation points for Great Britain and France. Makers of guns, bombs, shells, gas, powder, etc. could have done the same had they had shipments to make.* Franklin Roosevelt was pleased to let this state of affairs sink in on Congress and the U. S. people (82% of whom in a Gallup poll blamed Hitler for the war). He then obeyed Congress, recognized that war prevailed, embargoed exports of arms, munitions and materials...
People in the U. S. quickly learned that neither Congress nor President has the final definition of "materials of war." As it did in the first World War, to the vexation of the U. S., Great Britain declared almost every conceivable necessity of life in wartime to be contraband and therefore subject to blockade (see p. 22), making paperwork of the Neutrality Act's precise delineations between military and non-military materials...
...country house away from the terror of bombs. Thence each morning he drove into London in a Chrysler, waved swiftly through traffic by bobbies who spotted the large "CD" disk (Corps Diplomatique) on the radiator-grille. Every day he had to see at least one member of Britain's War Cabinet. Meanwhile, there was the job of sending the nine Kennedy children* back to the U. S., three at a time and arranging to reopen their home at Bronxville, N. Y. (The other Kennedy homes, in Palm Beach, Hyannis Port, Mass., are closed...
...trace of un-neutrality has shown in any Kennedy speech. Whatever his private views of Naziism, he has never sounded them from any platform he mounted as a U. S. official. Repeatedly he warned Great Britain against the easy belief that the U. S. "can be had." In his first speech as Ambassador, at the Pilgrims dinner in London in March 1938, he stated the view he has consistently maintained since, that the U. S. public opposes entangling alliances, that "we are careful and wary in the relationships we establish with foreign countries...
...slow hum of Zeppelins at night was World War I's high horror note for civilians of Britain and France.* This war's note was so confidently expected to be the shattering bellow of dive-bombers that congested areas of France and England were evacuated before war was declared. Through last week, no such note was heard except for a non-bombing visit toward Paris by a few Nazi reconnaissance ships, who retreated as soon as spotted, and a jittery performance near Britain's big Thames-mouth base at Chatham...