Word: laws
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...During World War 1, U. S. Secretaries of State Bryan and Lansing constantly protested such searches as contrary to international law. In practice, neutrals have come to accept the hard-boiled point of view of Great Britain's Wartime Prime Minister David Lloyd George: that since the attitude of a belligerent is governed by "the exigencies of deadly strife, the country which is determined at all costs to remain neutral must be prepared to pocket its pride and put up with repeated irritations and infringements of its interests . . . and should the difficulties of neutrality prove too great...
...same and form our opinions. These forces of kindness and personal freedom are opposed by thoughts of power over individuals under such slogans as that the individual and all he has belongs to the state, and such half baked ideas that the survival of the fittest is a natural law that applies to men and nations. These ideas, falling on the minds of men over the wide areas of nations build up into a mighty flood that sweeps away the hard won freedoms...
Wilson was right. It was a war to make the world safe for democracy. But the war was never finished. It still has to be fought till one side or the other is licked. . . . There is no mercy in the philosophy of those who believe that the natural law that permits those animals to survive who are strongest in cunning and physical might also applies to the races and nations of men. Under such a slogan all destruction of cities and innocent non-combatants is justified, for each child is a potential enemy in their eyes...
Never minding might-be or has-been, Key Pittman last week ran his committee straight down the track of what-is. He gave only a minimum of lip-service to Franklin Roosevelt's desire for a return to the indefinable fog of international law -where an energetic President could easily get lost from Congress' view. Then he set himself to his dual task: the drafting of a bill which would provide national security insurance against involvement in war, and the spiking of his opponents' guns...
...Income taxes were up 50%, the tax on tobacco up 20%, the beer tax up 14%. It was against the law to ask for a raise in salary or to demand extra pay for overtime. Every able-bodied resident of a German city was required to help pile up sandbags and to assist in building air-raid cellars...