Word: foreignism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Trafalgar-the Navy's hemispheric defense game off the West Indies (TIME, March 6). In such theoretical exercises, said he, theoretical land masses are imagined on the strategy maps where actually there is only ocean. Gist of his report: the game had failed to demonstrate conclusively whether a foreign fleet could penetrate the U. S. first line of defense and gain a military foothold in the Western Hemisphere, but had proved that the Navy needs added bases in the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. Piquant detail of the game: a defense patrol plane, from an altitude...
...most important terms of the agreement are the arrangements for a vast extension of credits by the United States to Brazil, and the latter's agreement to free its foreign exchange for commercial transactions. Here is a country with a large German population, loaded down with Nazi propaganda, which decided that the best hope for economic improvement lay in the establishment of a free exchange market. It means that Germany which has had a steadily growing Brazilian trade through her barter arrangements and use of restricted foreign exchange, will find Brazilian market's open to other countries, especially...
WASHINGTON--The problem of American recognition of the Spanish Insurgent government and the possibility of Congressional approval of an administration-opposed measure to give the people sole power to declare war were thrust into the forefront of foreign policy and national defense today...
...current arms program and the attempt to make a major issue out of foreign affairs is merely an effort to find something that will transcend party issues. Roosevelt realizes that he has lost the emergency support that made his first success possible and that if he is to retain control of the party he must appeal on new issues...
...career of Negley Parson-athlete, munitions salesman, aviator, foreign correspondent, lover-has been, if nothing else, a testament to his superb physique. As readers galloped through his best-selling autobiography, The Way of a Transgressor, their wonder grew how a man could avoid cracking up even halfway through such adventures...