Word: european
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hoover's delivery, which was not lost upon the Western Republicans as he continued: "Under the New Deal the expenditures have been divided into 'Regular' expenditures and 'emergency' or 'Recovery' expenditures. These are new words for an old South American and European device of dividing the budget into 'Ordinary' and 'extraordinary' budgets. . . . The theory is that the next generation should pay for the emergencies of this generation. . . . "The expenditures are now running over $8,000,000,000 a year. The annual deficit is running nearly...
...must impose or utterly lose face; 3) France and Britain to block the League from voting military or naval sanctions and participate in an "open door" exploitation of Ethiopia in their "spheres of influence"; 4) mutual understanding that there will be cheating all round on the "economic sanctions," with European States who have wares to sell to the belligerents disposing of them through private smugglers, these to take their chances of being caught and punished...
...opposition to young Italy's justifiable enterprise. . . . The League of Nations must not commit the folly of dealing with a civilized nation [Italy] and a barbarous nation [Ethiopia] on the same footing. . . . The risk must not be run of plunging the nations of the West into a European war as a result of what ought to be regarded as a purely colonial incident...
...which China begins to have strength-was being transferred 1,400 miles west to Chengtu in almost totally inaccessible Szechwan Province. This move by Generalissimo Chiang resembles that of Soviet Dictator Stalin in establishing strategic bases beyond the Ural Mountains too remote to be attacked by any European power. Szechwan Province, ringed by mountains and penetrated by no railway, will be developed by the Generalissimo, say his friends, into "a great, self-supporting and strategic unit." Larger than France, it is also more populous, and so distant from, Japan as to be, at its farthest western tip, only 100 miles...
...Teachers' Oath Bill, is, first, unnecessary. If there is genuine radicalism in America, it cannot be rooted out of existence' by legislation. Second, it is dangerous. A mere glance at postwar European history shows that the first step towards Fascism has invariably been measures whereby the State attempts to control the life and thought of its citizens. Third, it is bound to be disobeyed; there is even less possibility of its enforcement than there was for the Prohibition amendment...