Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...passed the first shocked realization that perhaps soon nothing but a shrunken ocean would lie between Adolf Hitler and America. Last fortnight the nation had agreed on the imperative necessity of arming. Last week, as little seemed to come out of Washington but newsreel pep talks, the cry changed to Action-no time now for diddling around, for chitchat, for political guff...
...appeal to the generosity of Harvard men, hoping to raise a minimum of $1,200 as a modest contribution to the ten million dollar fund which the Red Cross needs to lend effective help. A supply ship has already been sent to France; but many more must cross the ocean to provide for only the barest needs of an estimated five million refugees trekking the roads of Northern France and Belgium...
...that we can sit back and ignore Europe. Nothing makes this clearer than the way isolationists are now rushing into the arms of those conservative military experts who say this hemisphere can easily be defended by a very limited defense program. The old cry was "3,000 miles of ocean will make us safe." Now it is "50,000 planes will make us safe." Neither one will do it. We cannot live in peace and security behind planes any more than behind water if the war is allowed to go on spreading misery, poverty, and hatred in Europe...
Coincidentally, from the Republican party itself came a heartening statement that "if we are considering the proper means of defending the United States, there seems to be little doubt that our line of defense is the Atlantic Ocean, and not the battlefields of France. We cannot minimize the seriousness of a German victory . . . Yet even that alternative seems to be preferable to present participation in the European...
...cautions, patient and judicious. It is part of German tactics to confuse public opinion. Here we know few details of the fighting. After eight months, the wild best let loose has launched his masses of machines against neutrals who, like you, had faith in treaties. But there was no ocean to protect them. They were valiant but helpless. They were in the way. It pays not to be too close. They were murdered. Bombers, tanks, and machine guns force ahead into France...