Word: grattan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tine of the U. P. had been told by a Senator (whom he refused to name) that the President was "hopping mad" over the shelving of his Neutrality Bill, that Secretary Hull was urging him not to send a "forceful" message to Congress. The U. P.'s Grattan P. McGroarty had got similar news at the State Department. Correspondents Van Tine and McGroarty sent out a story, under Van Tine's signature, beginning: "President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Hull were reported in Administration quarters today to have disagreed on the language of a neutrality message the President...
Cried Sir Osmond Grattan Esmonde, pro-British Member from Waterford: "Since you know you cannot defend yourself with such a force, you are relying on the British fleet for protection...
...have just finished reading two articles in the May issue of Scribner's Magazine, "Why America Will Go to War" and "How to Keep Out of the Next War," by Messrs Grattan and Stoddard. The amazing response and reaction to your article concerning the munition manufacturers [TIME, March 5] prompts me to ask if it would be possible for you to give publicity to these two splendid articles. I believe you would be doing this nation a great service and perhaps be instrumental in keeping these United States out of the next conflagration which seems inevitable, if you could...
Author C. Hartley Grattan predicts a repetition of the events of 1914, with the U S. caught between blockading and blockaded powers in the Atlantic. In tl Pacific Japan will use force to stop tl flow of U. S. supplies to Soviet Russia via China. Author Lothrop Stoddard's anti-War prescription: float no foreign bonds of combatants in the U. S.; trade with combatants for cash or short-term credits; export no arms or munitions. - ED. Haul Sirs...
While Mr. Stoddard was basking in the memories of 1812, in sunny Raratonga during the years 1914-1917, Mr. Grattan was learning that the problems of Europe are not so much political as they are economic, however the headlines describe them. And to that knowledge he has added that the European situation in 1934 shows a fantastic similarity with that of 1914, with a complete renaissance of what Mr. Stoddard calls "Europe's ancient feuds." The only difference are some new components in the Balkan alliances and a strong and enigmatical Italy. He cannily observed the Orient, too, including America...