Word: letting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...OBJECT TO YOUR CALLING A EUROPEAN WAR A WORLD WAR. CONSIDER THIS FIRST STEP TOWARD A REAL WORLD WAR. LET'S CONFINE IT TO EUROPEAN NATIONS...
Unlike fortnight ago, when he was all tensity and action, last week his tone was quiet, jovial, as if to let the U. S. people in their own good time draw their own inferences from the fact of his proclaimed national emergency, the larger fact of war on the loose, the plight of the warring democracies and the widening sphere of the dictatorships (see p. 28). Casually, as though he were stating familiar trivia, he reaffirmed what he said last year: that the U. S. will not stand idly by if any expanding foreign power attempts to muscle...
...Italian-American delegates to the Sons of Italy convention in San Francisco, Stefano Miele (Supreme Venerable of the society) exclaimed: "Let us thank God that America is neutral...
...Let us not delude ourselves. If we enter the quarrels of Europe during war, we must stay in them in time of peace as well. It is madness to send our soldiers to be killed as we did in the last war if we turn the course of peace over to the greed, the fear and the intrigue of European nations...
...must be as impersonal as a surgeon with his knife. Let us make no mistake about the cost of entering this war. . . . Munitions alone will not be enough. . . . We are likely to lose a million men, possibly several million. . . . And our children will be fortunate if they see the end in their lives...