Word: britain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Neutralities? As he had promised, the President laid down two sets of rules for U. S. Neutrality. In one set he conformed to international usage, in the other to Congressional statute. Ten days after they were drafted, two days after Great Britain declared war, Franklin Roosevelt released the first. It forbade aliens on U. S. soil as well as U. S. citizens to take armed service with a belligerent. Others of its 17 rules forbade belligerent ships-of-war to use U. S. harbors for anything more than hurried (24 hour) ports of call, to roam with intent to fight...
...Britain isn't ready" they declare...
...includes $2,600,000,000 in bank deposits and short term credits; $4,000,000,000 in marketable securities; $1,700,000,000 in direct investments. By taking over the holdings of their nations, belligerent Governments will thus have over $4,000,000,000 for war purchases. In addition Britain is believed to have a gold reserve of approximately $2,500,000,000 and France of $3,153,000,000, making a grand total of more than $9,000,000,000 which, in a prolonged war, might in greater part be spent for U. S. goods...
Seattle: Wharves were clear but no bottoms were available at a time when lumber and logs, wheat and flour, canned salmon, apples, should soon be moving. (Apple shippers were grim; Great Britain. Germany, France take all their exports.) It looked as if Seattle's $1,000,000-a-day export trade would be reduced to a trickle...
...prayer. From the crowded churches of a whole continent rose a spontaneous litany. Some religious footnotes to the week's headlined woe: >Closed to the public were Westminster Abbey's Royal Chapels, their tombs sandbagged, many of their effigies removed. On the black marble slab of Great Britain's Unknown Warrior in the Abbey's nave, a wreath of brown orchids inscribed "The Italian Embassy" lay beside a wreath from President Albert Lebrun of France. >Great Britain's Cardinal Kinsley told nuns they might wear headdresses that fitted over gas masks, recommended "a simplified form...