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...Mum or numb were 1939's Isolationists. As Franklin Roosevelt, home from his 15-day cruise, penned his signature to the measure, only Columnist David Lawrence spoke the longer, less-fashionable view: "Nobody is deceived. . . . The Russian Government knows what the American Congress has done. So do the people of Finland. The U. S. Government has backed up its expressions of moral support with material aid to Finland. . . . Whether America likes it or not, she has become involved in the worldwide struggle for the preservation of democracy. . .. The Finnish loan makes a precedent that cannot possibly be erased...
...mum audience of Oxford undergraduates, in a dim lecture hall which, not long before, had resounded with pacifist slogans, Britain's Foreign Secretary expounded last week the novel doctrine that this war is one "between youth and youth." Assuming the role of Pontius Pilate for his generation, Lord Halifax squarely lays the responsibility for the Second World War at the door of German youth, whom he condemns in one and the same breath as "materialistic" and "prepared to sacrifice their lives without a moment's hesitation." A jumble of mysticisms and paradoxes, His Lordship's speech is termed...
...picked troops to Canada, got its Navy ready. England raged and ranted about dismembering the upstart Republic. New York City feted Captain Wilkes and Northern hotheads boasted that the Union would give Britain some of the medicine it was about to give the South. Abraham Lincoln kept mum, for weeks. Eventually he had Secretary of State Seward discover that, while Captain Wilkes was within international law in arresting the Trent, he went beyond it in removing its passengers without taking the ship and them before a prize court. Messrs. Mason & Slidell were released from jail in Boston, placed...
...beginning of World War II. the U. S. Weather Bureau's forecasts have been seriously handicapped. In prewar days, the Bureau received constant reports from foreign merchant ships fanned out along the Atlantic lanes. Now, fearful of divulging their positions to enemy raiders, ships move secretly, radios mum. Stations in England, not anxious to give weather tips to Nazi bombers, keep their reports dark. Even Canadian weather reports have stopped...
...they had been, reserved the freedom to put on the clamps should Tokyo further injure U. S. sensibilities or rights in China. On the day when the trade treaty lapsed and this Damoclean policy went into effect, Secretary of State Hull was bedded with the sniffles. President Roosevelt was mum. U. S. scrap iron, oil, many another export essential to Nippon's Armies continued to move across the Pacific. Embargo-minded Senators were given to understand that it would be a good idea to hold off on bills curbing trade with Japan, let Ambassador Horinouchi and his superiors...