Word: extended
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seas open and safe-all that U. S. commerce could ask. Actually conceived by Foreign Secretary George Canning, the Monroe Doctrine had been made a workable arrangement-for that Doctrine was in fact a deal. In 1823 Canning agreed with President Monroe that Europe should not attempt to extend her holdings in the Western Hemisphere. With the backing of Britain, it became practical for the U. S. to insure its own security by preventing any other power from expanding in the Western Hemisphere. To all intents Britain had abdicated to the U. S. as the dominant power in the Americas...
...imperative for the U. S. to extend every aid short of military participation to insure Great Britain's ultimate victory or, at least, keep the fight alive until the U. S. has time to prepare for "any eventuality." What eventuality did he see? Said Colonel Knox: "There is a very serious situation in South America . . . almost made to order for penetration of the type Hitler perfected in Europe. We would be in deadly peril if a foreign power gained a foothold there...
...this university founded by the first great American teacher of democracy, we send forth our prayers and our hopes to those beyond the seas who are maintaining with magnificent valor their battle for freedom." It was specific in its promise of aid: "In our American unity ... we will extend to the opponents of force the material resources of this nation, and, at the same time, we will harness and speed up the use of those resources in order that we ourselves in the Americas may have equipment and training equal to the task of any emergency and every defense...
...Belgian (last week being reorganized, re-uniformed)-about 1,000,000 men in all, to face an enemy whose reserves alone were that many. He dared not weaken further the garrisons of the Maginot Line or his ten divisions facing the new Italian enemy. The Germans, he prophesied, would extend their attack until it stretched all the way to Switzerland in order to keep him from concentrating his strength on any main front. Such was the grim situation, as the field grey forces and their blue-grey machines moved on, kilometre after kilometre, toward the Seine, the Marne and Paris...
...matter what his views. You should realize, I think, that you are not engaging in an emotional holiday or expressing a mere literary conviction. You should emphasize that your struggle for non-intervention entails also a willingness to make sacrifices--genuine sacrifices--in the fight to preserve and extend democracy at home. You should know that as you struggle for the real interests of your country, you must move in the teeth of an opposition that will employ the most invidious devices that selfish interest and muddled idealism can muster. Among other things the opposition will not hesitate to impute...