Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recognition of the independent status of Manchuria. Furthermore, even if this analysis is not acceptable, Mr. Rea contends that the military despotism of the War Lords at Nanking furnished a satisfactory justification for a revolutionary separation from the fatherland. In short, Manchuria was exercising the rights of any downtrodden nation in seeking the aid of Japan to defeat the forces of Chiang-Kai-shek...
Banking: "It was decided more than 20 years ago that the Government should assume the responsibility of providing a means by which the credit of the nation might be controlled, not by a few private banking institutions, but by a body with public prestige and authority. The answer to this demand was the Federal Reserve System. Twenty years of experience with this system have justified the efforts made to create it, but these 20 years have shown by experience definite possibilities for improvement...
...however, Priest Coughlin's first encounter with a large audience-in-the-flesh. Year ago at Des Moines he addressed the Farmers' Holiday Association. In November 1933, in Manhattan's Hippodrome he spoke to 7,000 people assembled by members of the Committee for the Nation (inflation), told them to "stop Roosevelt from being stopped...
...first grave doubts of German diplomacy arose when Germany left the League for reasons which I have never been able to appreciate except on the assumption that the German Government was indifferent to the pacification of Europe. . . . Germany is arming-an army greater than that of any other nation in Europe, an air force already declared to equal ours and a fleet that would be the equal of the French and superior to the Italian. . . . [Germany] has broken up the road to peace. . . . And beset it with terrors. It claims a measure of armed power which puts most...
...criticism of that case. . . ." Author Millis determinedly refrains from diagnosing the disease, but his unexpressed diagnosis is tacitly outspoken: the U. S. was maneuvered into the War against its will, partly by force of circumstance but largely by the most gigantic campaign of bamboozlement that ever fooled a nation. Many a U. S. patriot still believes that the U. S. patriotic rabies of 1917 was self-induced. Readers of Road to War will learn how badly mistaken they were. Analyst Millis isolates the infecting bacteria: British diplomacy, Allied propaganda, U. S. gullibility...