Word: lende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mourned Jean Cocteau, poet, dramatist and conversationalist: "Sometimes after dinner with a celebrated group of brilliant minds, the talk in the salon over the coffee is about the high price of butter and eggs. Such a subject does not lend itself to brilliance!" But anxiety focuses on more than carrots and conversation. In the survey, fewer than one-third of all Europeans believe that there exists "a fairly good chance" to avoid a major war within the next 25 to 30 years. Asked further: "Which side [U.S. or Russia] do you think is gaining ground today and which losing ground...
Historian Beard carefully avoids the implications of an Axis victory had the U.S. stayed "neutral." Instead, he confines himself to evidence that Roosevelt deliberately goaded Hitler with Lend-Lease, illegal convoying and attacks on his submarines that amounted to undeclared war. When Hitler refused to be provoked into war by this abuse, Beard argues, President Roosevelt began, through diplomacy, to squeeze Japan into a position where she would be sure to fight. Not only that, says Beard, but Roosevelt and Hull rejected a Japanese "truce" which might have averted a Pacific war entirely. This line of argument indicates a willingness...
Quite aside from the strength the available figures lend to the Union's case, the terms of the offer to arbitrate are enough in themselves to suggest that labor's side is much the more justified in this dispute. It takes no small amount of confidence in its cause for the Union to agree to accept any three Harvard graduates selected by President Conant as an arbitration board...
...first commendation in the engine room of the Oregon on her round-the-Horn dash from San Francisco harbor to the Caribbean in '98, served with the Atlantic fleet in World War I, came out of retirement in World War II to serve as the Navy's Lend-Lease liaison officer and a member of President Roosevelt's five-man Pearl Harbor investigating committee...
...decision was to commit the U.S. to full military support of Western Union-even if that should mean, in event of war, a military retreat from the Mediterranean. To make the guarantee effective, the U.S. needed, in one of Marshall's favorite phrases, "the military posture" to lend its words authority...