Word: foreignism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inside pages of the nation's press. If the President was startled by the antagonism displayed by the little businessmen (see p. 11 ) toward him and his Administration, he did not indicate it, for he let them run wild on the front page. In the uproar over foreign policy (see col. 2) he took no visible part. With vocal Congressmen trying desperately to force him to redefine his stand, the closest approach to a statement on foreign policy the President made last week was a little speech made to a visiting group of Protestant ministers. The President, an Episcopal...
...ethos or collective disposition of the U. S. people is dead set against foreign alliances. The fatal smell of 1917 is still too heavy in the air. On the other hand, the U. S. people will buy almost anything -from a piece of the power business to the world's biggest breadline-and 74% of the citizens canvassed in a recent Gallup poll were eager to buy a big navy, the kind of Big Navy that Franklin Roosevelt asked Congress for two weeks...
...midst of a Senate squabble on the Housing Bill, Nevada's spare Key Pittman, Chairman of the Foreign Relations committee, rose to answer the charge made day before by California's Hiram Johnson, a fellow committeeman, that the U. S. "had no foreign policy." Mr. Johnson advanced the theory that the State Department's protestations of peace were at odds with the President's threat of "quarantining" aggressor nations. In his Chief's defense, Senator Pittman declared: "When the President of the U. S. first entered office he announced what I consider the fundamental foreign...
...large superiority in aircraft and a considerable superiority in artillery. On the other hand the fighting spirit seems to be stronger on the Barcelona Government side as a whole, except for certain sections of Franco's troops, such as the Navarrese and what remains of the Foreign Legion. The Government also seems to have the superiority in motor transport, and this is very important militarily. Any greater result than an initial success in a surprised offensive depends on the rapidity with which attacker and defender can rush up reserves, to deepen or close the breach respectively...
Last week two British freighters were sunk by "pirate craft" in Spanish waters. This week it was reported in Paris that something like a "blockade" of Italian submarine bases in the Balearics was contemplated by the British and French navies. More substantial was the announcement by British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden to a cheering House of Commons that "His Majesty's Government will not tolerate that submarines be submerged in the patrol zones" and that submerged submarines would be attacked on sight...