Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Full of rearmament plans but temporarily checked by what the law schools term a "conflict of law," the Army has been impatiently marking time. All dressed up, it had no place to go. For President Roosevelt, while authorized to spend more than Congress has appropriated for Army pay, food, clothing for new recruits, was prohibited by law from doing the same for housing, hospitalization and transportation. And without funds the Army could not move men, had to shelve temporarily its plans for improved living quarters and medical facilities at numerous bases in the U. S. and her territories...
...diffused feeling, and surely there could be no profounder break with human tradition and existing forms of government than that. But that revolution did not realize itself. The League of Nations, we can all admit now, was a poor and ineffective outcome of that revolutionary proposal to banish armed conflict from the world and inaugurate a new life for mankind. It was too conservative of existing things, halfhearted, diplomatic. And since, as more and more of us are beginning to realize now, there can be no more peace or safety on earth without a profound reconstruction of the methods...
Germany's collaboration with Russia displeases a people nearly 100% Catholic. Moreover they were told less than a year ago that in Spain they were fighting Bolshevism. If a conflict of interests between Italy and Germany-Russia were needed, it could readily be found in the Balkans, long one of Italy's special spheres of interests and now claimed as the special problem of the Communist and Nazi dictators...
...United States are concerned, Professor Elliott claims that "there is no serious threat of our being drawn into the conflict," that the immediate problem is planning a national policy for a long war. The greatest threat to the position of this country he feels lies in possible action by the Japanese navy in the Pacific, where it is essential that the United States maintain a balance of power in the Far East "in which it holds the balance...
Addressing his cheering fellow-veterans, he said, "As your national commander I pledge myself to go from this convention and make known to our fellow-citizens your mandate to keep our nation out of any armed conflict overseas. . . . Attempting to cloak our neutrality with a biased belligerency must inevitably lead us straight into...