Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Roosevelt started it. In Hyde Park, where he had gone to vote, visit his mother, catch cold and be serenaded by shivering villagers after the Republicans swept the county, he told reporters what he thought of the transfer of U. S. ships to foreign flags...
Said the Secretary, disagreeing with his chief: when the Maritime Commission first approached him, he felt that no question of foreign policy was involved. Then he realized he had spoken hastily, believed all officials should join in preserving the absolute integrity of the Neutrality Act, advised the Commission that there should not be even the appearance of any official step or course that might negate that policy...
...against this opposition the U. S. Government went swiftly ahead with its preparation of a formula to deal with Latin-American debts. Franklin Roosevelt last fortnight had expressed disgust with the slow operations of the Foreign Bondholders Protective Council, which, he felt, should long ago have reached an inter-American understanding on the $1,000,000,000 Latin-American bonds held by U. S. citizens...
...pacing up & down inside, gesticulating while he talked. Later they saw Prince Bernhard zu Lippe-Biesterfeld, husband of Princess Juliana and a member of the Dutch Army General Staff, dash out of the Palace's single entrance, get into a car and leave. At 1:30 a.m. Dutch Foreign Minister Eelco N. van Kleffens left. Gradually the Palace lights went...
...more likely story was that the two sovereigns wanted to let Adolf Hitler know that they would defend their neutrality, and their frontiers, together. The concentration of Nazi troops on the Belgian and The Netherlands border and the recent tone of the German press and Foreign Office toward the Low Countries made Belgians and Netherlanders fear that both might well need defending...