Word: nationalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these days of tension ... we must all stand together . . . fulfill our obligations to the nation, regardless of political or partisan considerations," Franklin Roosevelt wrote last week, canceling a political engagement and making Republicans wonder how far non-political national unity is expected...
...cynical view of many a New Dealer was last week expressed by Kenneth G. Crawford, who wrote in the Nation: "Is the Roosevelt Administration neutral? Certainly not. Is there any chance of the U. S. to stay out of another world war? Practically none. Will the Rooseveit program of liberal reform go on in the event of a general war? It will not. . . . Would the outbreak of a war mean a third term for President Roosevelt? Probably...
...same time the air chiefs met, Sir Cyril L. N. Newall and General Joseph Vuillemin. In the air the Briton is the boss, but in this War, land and air forces are integrated more closely than ever before. All the generals concentrated on a problem for which neither nation had primarily fashioned its arms: an offensive action moving away from France's great defensive bastion, the Maginot Line...
...along with all this there was: "You must believe me if I tell you that the thesis of a long war weakening a nation is not true. With every year we will grow stronger...
This week to a very few earnest people this cabala from the short-wave Voz de Guatemala meant: "War must be prevented. Do not let false reports inflame you. Relations can always be amicably settled. Unless a nation is really bloodthirsty, there is no reason for war. We must not let propaganda flood our brains and stop our reasoning. Stop and think! War is not necessary...