Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Governor General of the Philippines) long before he went in & out with Herbert Hoover. People born in the late 19th Century remember him as a baggy, slightly fuzzy graduate of Yale and Harvard Law School in the fuzzy role which Secretaries of State occupied during years when U. S. foreign policy consisted of having almost no policy. Secretary Stimson, rigid legalist that he is, in fact had a policy. When Japan in 1931 revived undeclared war as an international blackjack, he proposed to resist aggressors by all peaceful means. But in a war-shy, depression-hit world, Britain...
Last week, just 22 years after the U. S. last declared war, Colonel Stimson had the honor of being called as witness No. 1 before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, sitting to consider extension, revision or junking of the present so-called Neutrality Act, important provisions of which expire May 1. To hear the Elder Statesman all but two of the 23 committeemen turned out.* Also present, though no committeeman, was North Dakota's Senator Gerald P. ("Neutrality") Nye, who took copious notes...
...Republican and the present Administration is Democratic, but I have always tried to limit my partisanship in the zone of foreign affairs. . . . I am not impressed with the fear that in that zone Presidential discretion will be abused...
People who believe that U. S. foreign policy is determined at the State Department or in full-dress hearings of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, kept their eyes last week on Washington. People who believe that the mass attitudes of the U. S. are really controlling, looked instead at forces which help shape those attitudes...
Strangely enough these words had fundamental relation to U. S. foreign policy. For the long-legged lady was Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt and the swatches were materials for dresses, presented by the wool-raisers of Britain and the U. S., which Mrs. Roosevelt and Britain's Queen Elizabeth will wear if they meet as scheduled in the U. S. in June. Mrs. Roosevelt's patient swatch-fingering was an innocent little act cooked up by the U. S. wool-growers' publicists. (Commodore Robert B. Irving of the Queen Mary acted as special courier to take Her Majesty...