Word: ifs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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War or peace in Europe hangs on the calculations and miscalculations of a few men in power, and there is a major unknown in their calculations: In case of war can they or can their enemies rely on the economic resources of the U. S.? If one of the men...
This move, whose object was not to preserve the peace (which was already shot full of holes) but to preserve the peace system, was received by Sir John Simon, Britain's cold, cautious, legalistic Foreign Secretary, with a yawn. Britain answered that she would be satisfied if Japan reaffirmed...
Behind all this were two American ideas. One was the simple humanitarian idea that U. S. hands should not be bloodied by making guns and bullets by which men anywhere were killed and maimed. The other was that the U. S. could be kept out of war if it did...
Hull's assistant and Lima Conference companion, fox-faced Adolf Berle, now occupies the Stimson Washington mansion of Woodley, where Mr. Hull plays croquet weekly. The mild-mannered Secretary, one of the world's most fluent monotone cussers, addresses his opponent's croquet balls (if people have...
The Administration wants to amend the embargo provision out of the bill-possibly by a cash & carry clause (not to be confused with the last law's cash & carry provision which applied to "nonlethal weapons"-cotton, oil, steel, etc.; this would apply to actual arms). If this should happen...