Word: german
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...American troops were sent repeatedly to preserve order or protect U.S. interests in Caribbean countries. In 1940 Franklin Roosevelt traded 50 World War I destroyers for British bases in the Western Hemisphere. As Winston Churchill observed, the action "would, according to all the standards of history, have justified the German government in declaring war." President Truman later dispatched troops to Korea without congressional approval, John Kennedy had his Bay of Pigs, and Lyndon Johnson saw no need to ask Congress before sending fighting men to the Dominican Republic...
...they may not have observed protocol-or in some cases the Constitution-it is not so easy to contend that the Chief Executives were always wrong. In the summer of 1940, for instance, President Roosevelt had good reason to believe that American destroyers might prove decisive in defeating a German invasion of Britain; a British defeat would have brought the U.S. into the gravest peril. Yet Congress probably would not have approved the transaction for weeks or months, if at all. Congress is oftentimes hostage to parochial interests, while the President has the national constituency and brings full concern...
...first public warning to the Dutch came from a German police boat at the tiny border town of Lobith, where the Rhine flows from West Germany into The Netherlands. "The river is poisoned!" a German policeman shouted to a Dutch police launch. "Nobody knows what...
...England, but Harvard will still have plenty of competition. The mammoth Penn freshmen heavies, who capped an unbeaten spring with triumphs at the Sprints and the I.R.A., as well as a strong M.I.T. varsity eight will both present stiff challenges, and there are several entries from England and a German crew as well...
...Harvard has beaten the M.I.T. boat twice this year, and should expect little trouble from the London Rowing Club, which leads a flock of local English entries. A west German eight is also competing and the presence of the Garda Siochana, a boatload of husky Dublin policemen, is not unexpected...