Word: incidentally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These precautions assuredly were not for the safety of her Axis passengers. They were to protect the returning U.S. consular officers and newsmen who will sail from Lisbon this week. If an Axis nation wanted an incident to plunge the U.S. in a shooting war, a torpedo in the West...
Over that luncheon lay the question of war. Over it too lay the question of U.S. public opinion. Two days earlier, President Roosevelt had told Congress that U.S. naval forces had occupied Iceland. U.S. public opinion supported this move even though Iceland lay in what Germany called its war zone...
The controversy spread like a heat wave. The Arkansas Department of the Army Mothers' Club demanded Ben Lear's removal. The Knoxville (Tenn.) News-Sentinel printed a letter from an Army mother ("Maybe General Lear got his rule books mixed and read the one for Russia") and the...
Meanwhile the hooraw had proved embarrassing not only to Ben Lear but to the 110th and the Army. Last week in Olympia, Wash., soldiers from Fort Lewis tossed out mash notes to girls ("Please write to this lonely soldier," etc.) tagged with the postscript: "Don't tell Lieut. General...
There was no assurance that it would not flare up again. Both Governments were mad. Peru accused Ecuador of provoking an incident to force a settlement by the other American nations. Ecuador thought Peru was trying to settle the dispute by pure force. In Washington, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro...