Word: embroilment
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Coining an urbane phrase in which to describe the efforts of British diplomats in Washington and London to draw the Roosevelt Administration into their way of thinking, Sir Gerald Campbell, popular British Consul General in Manhattan, declared: "We should like to embroil the United States in peace." Added Sir Gerald hastily, "not to protect the British Empire, but to save humanity from itself...
...fine purpose of the Neutrality Act will indeed be thwarted if the government's present attitude is allowed to crystallize into national policy. To carry on trade in commodities, which, after all, are only one degree removed from armaments, promises to embroil the United States in foreign conflicts almost as easily as if there were no embargo at all. In case of a blockade it is important to the blockaders that metals, textiles, and foodstuffs be kept from the closed port as machine guns and explosives themselves...
...Senator Wagner flew out to Portland as a "special adviser." Lloyd Garrison, chairman of the new National Labor Relations Board, sent the Board's chief examiner, P. A. Donoghue, to San Francisco. The Labor Department ordered a conciliator up from Dallas. But the Federal Government showed reluctance to embroil itself further. At her Washington desk sat Madam Secretary of Labor Perkins...
...striking cotton workers had snarled Labor's section of the march toward Recovery. Police engaged in pitched battle with rioting silk workers in New Jersey. Rival coal mine unionists were killing each other in Illinois. Angered by falling commodity prices, disgruntled farmers were getting ready to embroil the Midwest in an agricultural strike (see p.11). Rural agitation for inflation had raised an issue from which the Administration had been dancing away for weeks. But by noon the newshawks knew that the President's announcement would concern none of these things. The United Press, by querying Moscow, had scored...
...live there. But last week Russia made no overt move to protect the city whose defense was left to spry little General Ting Chao. General Ting Chao fought a 17-hour battle which Harbin's shivering but fascinated inhabitants watched from their roofs. Possibly in an effort to embroil Russia. Ting Chao's artillery was posted squarely in front of Russian offices of the C. E. R. But Russia was not embroiled. Ting Chao's men finally broke under a withering fire from Japanese guns and airplanes while the General himself scuttled out of town, pursued...