Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...address was divided into three parts: 1) the full-dress defense of the Department's recent record, including the deal with Vichy; 2) a tribute to the other members of the United Nations, including Russia; 3) an ever-so-cautious advocacy of an international "system" to maintain peace. The Secretary was so cautious in his approach to this idea, which might mean another League of Nations or might mean nothing, that he barely permitted himself to use the words "organized system." Said...
Meanwhile, the British Navy, with the help first of France, then of the U.S. and others, began to maintain a world patrol of its own. In Mexico, Chile and Argentina, at Navarino in Greece, at Dulcigno on the Adriatic and at Peking during the Boxer Rebellion, against the Barbary pirates and the pirates of the Far East, Britain and other great powers used force or the threat of force to keep the peace...
After the first attempts at general revolt have been quashed, and the British and Americans have got hold of all key positions of communications and public services, it will be easy to maintain order. King Vittorio Emanuele will then probably abdicate in favor of his son, who will restore Italy's pre-Fascist constitution. He will also invite the President of the Chamber of Fasces and Corporations to act as the Premier. This is Dino Grandi, former Fascist Ambassador to London, who is rumored to have engineered Mussolini's downfall. "After [Archbishop] Spellman's visit...
...provide and maintain a navy...
...must acquire by treaty or by occupation such islands and such territories as we deem necessary to our safety. . . . We must go far afield. Dakar and Casablanca . . . must be ours in permanence. . . . We must have our own permanent naval and air bases in Iceland and Greenland. We must maintain, continue, perfect and enlarge our base on Bermuda. . . . We must make equitable arrangement if we can for the possession of the islands of the Caribbean...