Word: foreignism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Historians may well look back upon last week as a turning point in U. S. foreign policy. Europe's jitters had communicated themselves to Washington so forcefully that President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Hull agreed the moment had come for another warning to Herr Hitler. Accordingly, Mr. Hull took to the air with a speech, short-waved to Europe, in which he elaborated his thesis of international "order under law." His sharpest point: "In a smaller and smaller world it will soon no longer be possible for some nations to choose and follow the way of force...
...wrong, but to be caught doing wrong. Our conception of virtue is conventional. We take religion lightly and we think lip-service equivalent to a deep, abiding faith. Patriotism among us is only skin deep and incapable of inspiring heroic deeds. ... A wrong adaptation of foreign customs creates in us, especially among the young, a feeling that politeness is commonplace and that smartness and insolence are equivalent to good breeding. We attained our freedom but our spirit is still bound by shackles forced by the frailties of our nature. We are Orientals. Orientals are known for their placidity and passiveness...
...weeks ago the British Government dispatched to the capitals of Spain's warring factions-Barcelona and Burgos-a closely printed, 50-page memorandum entitled: "The text of a proposed resolution reaffirming and extending the Nonintervention Agreement and provision for the withdrawal of foreign volunteers from Spain, for the grant in certain circumstances of belligerent rights to the two parties in Spain, and for the observation of the Spanish frontiers by land...
This "proposed resolution," adopted unanimously by the 27 nations of the London Non-intervention Committee after 24 months of quarreling and petty dickering, was in effect a plan to ease international tension by getting foreign soldiers out of Spain. Before the elaborately painstaking plan could be carried out, Spain's Rightists and Leftists had of course to accept. To tempt them into agreement, concessions were tentatively offered to both factions. Held out to Rightist Spain was the plum of belligerent rights which would legalize a blockade of Leftist Spain's ports. For Leftist Spain was a tempting offer...
Last month Leftist Spain accepted the plan with only a few minor reservations.This week Rightist Spain told Great Britain that it too ''accepted the principle" of withdrawal of foreign volunteers. But larded into General Franco's "acceptance" were so many Rightist complaints, demands, objections, charges and refusals that, in effect, it was almost a flat rejection...