Word: indirections
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...assurance he gave with all the power he could command: "I give you this most solemn assurance: there is no secret treaty, no secret obligation, no secret commitment, no secret understanding in any shape or form, direct or indirect ... to involve this nation in any war or for any other purpose...
...indirect reference he made to Wendell Willkie, in noting that the men who came to Washington to help in the defense program did not include "holding company lawyers or executives." To point his sarcasm on Republican Congressional opposition he twice rhythmically referred to "Congressmen Martin, Barton and Fish," to the cLlighted boos of the crowd...
...partial evacuation of Cer-nauti on the Rumania-Russian border, rumored movements of Soviet tanks and motorized units, the visit to Bessarabia of Russian Commissar of Defense Semion Timoshenko. The principal business of Marshal Timoshenko was to visit his home town and chat with his rickety brother. One extremely indirect report told of the sinking of Rumanian Monitor No. 6 by the Russians; but another version called it a Yugoslav tanker sunk by a Rumanian mine. Proponents of the Nazi-Communist war pointed with delighted alarm to the gathering of 330,000 German troops far north in Norway against...
...Franklin Roosevelt felt that he could hot answer Wendell Willkie except with quotations from newspapers, indirect allusions and indirect defenses, he could restate the philosophy of his administration: 1) about the extension of Federal power (that prompted Republican charges of eventual dictatorship); 2) about spending (that prompted Wendell Willkie's charge of eventual bankruptcy). Dedicating his three schools (a high school and two grade schools near Hyde Park), he reaffirmed the meaning of education in a democracy: "In these schools of ours . . . the children of today and of future generations will be taught, without censorship or restriction, the facts...
Within the next year we may go to war. If we do, it may not be an act of the whole people working through their elected representatives, but probably by just this sort of indirect extralegal route...