Word: foreignism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year ago the Administration managed by only 21 votes in the House to beat the proposal by Indiana's Louis Ludlow that the Constitution be altered to require, except in case the U. S. was invaded, a national referendum before Congress could declare war on a foreign power. As revised by the twelve Senators, the proposed amendment would take from Congress the power to declare war except in case of "attack by armed forces, actual or immediately threatened" upon U. S. territory or upon "any country in the Western Hemisphere" threatened by a non-American nation...
Said Spokesman La Follette: "Americans have not forgotten the steps that made a declaration of war inevitable in 1917. War breaks out in foreign lands. The Executive decides to help one side. The nation becomes involved in secret commitments and breaches of neutrality. Then there are 'episodes' and excuses for taking sides further. . . . When it is too late to be neutral, Congress is asked to rubber stamp a declaration of war, and the people are lured by fancy slogans about fighting to end all war and save democracy. After the supreme sacrifice is made, democracy is destroyed...
...Stabilization Fund is to protect U. S. business if European currencies go to pot, but Mr. Morgenthau had solemnly to assure the House that the Administration had, at this time, no idea of further devaluation; that the Fund had not and never would be used to finance foreign purchases of arms...
Above the reception room mantel was a stone-hewn hammer & sickle and a portrait of Dictator Stalin. Drinking champagne, but not touching the bountiful caviar and vodka, Mr. Chamberlain stood below a portrait of Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff all evening, talked with Comrade Maisky for a half hour, departed at n p.m., whereupon the orchestra began to swing...
...stop and from there to Moscow for five or more days. Most prominent in the delegation will be Robert Spear Hudson, Secretary of the Department of Overseas Trade, who once warned Germany that Britain could beat her at the barter game, and Mr. Frank T. A. Ashton-Gwatkin, Foreign Office economist who also has written novels about Japan under the name of John Paris. Evidently Dictator Joseph Stalin was now to have his share of "appeasement...