Word: imperiling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...problem in foreign policy. Wholly aside from what war would cost the U. S. in human suffering, in economic and political sacrifice, there were other excellent reasons for not fighting Japan. Foremost of these was the fact that there is a war going on in Europe whose outcome may imperil the security of the U. S. far more than Japan's seizure of the Indies...
...from his desk in the U. S. Senate one day last week rose round-shouldered, wraithlike Homer Truett Bone. Loudly he wondered why "the stubbornness of one man" (Franklin Delano Roosevelt) should be allowed to imperil the lives of 900 American refugees bound for the U. S. from Finland aboard the U. S. Army transport American Legion. The State Department gave no official explanation of why the route of the American Legion was not changed after Germany refused to guarantee her safe conduct through mined British waters north of Scotland...
...even out of the ordinary. What was extraordinary last week was the great, mal-assorted conglomeration of minorities against conscription; the extreme inaction of the thwarted majority, the silence or ineptitude of most of its supposed spokesmen, the misinformation or lack of information which was permitted to imperil the majority will...
...Labor in the person of C. I. O.'s John Lewis identified conscription with dictatorship ("Democracy must offer its own way of life to combat the forces which imperil civilization today"). Caught between his instinct to oppose John Lewis and his aversion to any politically uncertain controversy. A. F. of L.'s William Green hesitated, finally came out against compulsory training until it becomes "necessary to defend, protect and preserve America...
Wilson declared: "I am authorized to state that it is the intention and the avowed policy of my Government to cooperate fully, wherever such cooperation is desired, with all the other American Governments in crushing all activities that arise from non-American sources, and that imperil our political and economic freedom." Other Latin-American nations showed equally definite popular if not official leanings toward democracy...