Word: defenselessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rope around his waist does not go climbing by himself. ... In other words he was tapped on the back of the head. . . . The facts are that King Albert was opposed to war. He would not play any part in the deviltry of France in conspiring for war against defenseless Germany...
...absured to begin with, because it was predicated on the assumption that the people of this country are pro-war. Never was any country less militaristic. Never was any student body more generally eager for peace. But this keenness for peace does not imply that America should be defenseless. It does not mean that we can dispense with even the meagre framework of an army of which the student R.O.T.C.'s are a small part. Such casual training of volunteers holds no possible militaristic threat. The R.O.T.C. members are simply wise enough to know that peace cannot be obtained...
When U. S. newsreel men asked Generalissimo Chiang to let them film from his U. S. planes the actual bombing of defenseless Chinese villages some months ago he did not hesitate. In many a U. S. cinema house this week U. S. citizens are watching the bombs explode...
...harvest gathered from the misfortunes of others, the capitalist may protect himself by hoarding or may even find profit in the fluctuations of values; but the wage-earner-the first to be injured by a depreciated currency and the last to receive the benefit of its correction-is practically defenseless. He relies for work upon the ventures of confident and contented capital. ... He can neither prey on the misfortunes of others nor hoard his labor. . . . All history warns us against rash experiments which threaten violent changes in our monetary standard and the degradation of our currency. . . . Every unstable and fluctuating...
Observers agreed that, should Chancellor Hitler decide to pick a war tomorrow, fat little Denmark, a land of farmers as defenseless as their cows, would offer the easiest prize, especially since North Slesvig is swarming with Danish Nazis financed from Berlin. But the main danger was not last week that Germans may be so foolish as to start any kind of war in 1933. The longer Adolf Hitler waits, the keener his Reichswehr and Storm Troops become, the more arms the Fatherland secretly or openly acquires, the greater will be Germany's chance to strike with success. The danger...