Word: lende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That Franklin Roosevelt should choose to make overtures to Guy Gillette was significant. In 1938 the Administration sought, unsuccessfully, to purge him.* Since then he has been a pretty consistent Administration foe: he voted against Lend-Lease, draft extension and neutrality act revision; as late as last February, he was the only member of the Foreign Relations Committee-Democrat or Republican-to oppose UNRRA. He has also said: "I would oppose a fourth term for my own father...
...town where fully two-thirds of the people are of German descent. That made no difference to Wendell Willkie. To 3,000 listeners in the Civic Auditorium of little Norfolk, Neb. (pop. 10,490) that evening, the big man proudly recalled his early and potent support of Lend-Lease, Selective Service and other war measures which most Republican professionals opposed. With strong hands and heavy voice he hammered away at his familiar arguments for international cooperation and all-out, sacrificial war, hoarsely exhorting Republicans to become the "win-the-war" party. Then he went back to the Norfolk Hotel (five...
...haired, closemouthed Mike McDermott. Search of the records finally produced four specific protests to the British Foreign Office, since last Oct. 1, concerning premature London reports of : 1) Secretary Hull's impending arrival in Moscow; 2) the Italian declaration of war against Germany; 3) signing of the third Lend-Lease agreement with Russia; 4) the Roosevelt-Churchill-Chiang conference at Cairo. A fifth had already been mentioned in the Times dispatch from London: a report that a U.S. plan for postwar Germany had been submitted to the European Advisory Commission...
...Chicago Tribune would go down to defeat. In Green Bay, he declared "I am in complete disagreement with the President's Vichy policy, his Darlan policy, and his dealings with the Fascist forces of Italy." But he forthrightly defended his own international sympathies, his early espousal of Lend-Lease ("I never will be prouder of anything in my life...
...Guerra (War Front), a pro-Argentine group of Army officers, decided that he had perched there long enough. Led by hatchet-faced Colonel Benitez Vera, the 3,000-man garrison of Campo Grande set out for the center of Asunción, a few miles away, riding in Lend-Lease jeeps and trucks, guarded by Lend-Lease airplanes. President Morinigo met them, yielded to their demands...