Word: europeans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coincidence lucky for democracy, are the three countries able to stand comfortably the strain of an arms race. During the next year, for instance, the United States and Great Britain are each to spend a half billion dollars in naval building. The sums to be expended by the European democracies for armies will exceed even these impressive figures. To a certain extent the countries ruled by dictators can match their rivals dollar for dollar, but not in the long run. As long as the democracies remained content with third-rate military machines, the dictators, with their limited resources, could still...
Left. By Admiral William Sowden Sims, Wartime commander of the U. S. Fleet in European waters. an estate valued at less than $3,000; in Newport...
...Great War, he held the position of assistant in the Department of State. At the conclusion of the war, Herter, who was born in Paris, acted as Secretary for the American Commission to Negotiate Peace in Paris. Shortly after the war he worked with Herbert Hoover on the European Relief Council, of which he was executive Secretary. He continued to work with Hoover as he held the position of assistant in the Department of Commerce from...
...conflicts. More likely, however, it is, at best, merely an indication that the United States and the Roosevelt administration approve, but will not necessarily act in the France-British campaign was a formal statement that American sympathizes for an end to the armament race. That the address are with European democracies in general cannot well be doubted in view of the wording of the speech. Stating that the people of America are "not indifferent to" the plight of those nations who are striving to maintain the "tradition of western civilization", the Ambassador clearly hints at assistance from the United States...
...conflicting official viewpoints present a definite problem. From Washington circles, the President's firm intention to remain neutral in any European embroilment has up to yesterday remained unquestioned. As an official envoy from the President, Ambassador Bullitt has in part, at least, shattered this stand. Until the position held by the Administration is restated or qualified, the foreign policy must remain dubious...