Word: morale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During three days there was silence, broken only once when President Roosevelt announced that a law would be passed, as a matter of moral obligation, to appropriate money to pay farmers for AAA contracts already fulfilled. That would wipe the slate for the past but it gave no clue to the future...
...munitions; 2) abnormal quantities of other commodities essential to war. Point No. 1 of the President's policy exists as law only until the Neutrality Resolution passed by Congress last session shall expire on Feb. 29. Point No. 2 has thus far been only a matter of moral suasion by President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Hull. Few hours before the President spoke, there was introduced in both Senate and House, by Chairman Key Pittman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Chairman Sam D. McReynolds of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, an Administration-backed bill which proposed...
...Adolf Hitler cut loose with the whole German Press in fighting acknowledgment that the President's shoe pinches Germany. Sneered the Berliner Tageblat:. "That such commonplaces should be uttered from so exalted a rostrum!" Snapped the Frankfurter Zeitung: "The United States is merging more & more into a politico-moral autarchy which would probably be justified if it were living on a remote and self-sufficient island." The German Foreign Office's semi-official Diplomatische Korrespondenz noted the President's "egoistic wish to avoid any participation...
...vivid terms Deputy Reynaud described his impressions in London of high British moral repugnance to Hoare & Laval. "If we become separated from Britain, it means war!" he cried. "The German press does not leave us in ignorance of that! . . . Remember Hitler's words in Mein Karnpf. The driving of a wedge between Britain and France, the isolation of France-that is to be the German signal for war! Laval, by his lukewarm support of the League, would make Der Führer's fondest dream come true. . . . We have to choose between Italy which is in rupture with...
...Laval. In the House of Commons fortnight ago the Prime Minister was never in danger because his Conservative Party held an absolute majority and not even Stanley Baldwin's worst enemies ever predicted that he, as the engineer of the Tory political machine, could suffer a backfire of moral indignation from its stout innards. Not being his own Foreign Secretary, Mr. Baldwin could and did make a scapegoat of Sir Samuel Hoare. After that he stated the future Ethiopian policy of His Majesty's Government in terms so ambiguous that even this week new Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden...