Word: plans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since the nomination was such a pushover, U. S. interest centred on the proposed platform. The convention drafted a plan to nationalize the oil industry completely within the next six years. If the plan is endorsed, all petroleum holdings will be seized, and compensation paid only "in the event that it should be absolutely indispensable," and only if it is proved that the original concession was not fraudulently obtained. Land expropriation will also be continued as vigorously as possible...
Canada is to be Britain's air-training ground. Turning out 12,000 pilots every 28 weeks is to be Canada's big contribution to the war, and this, in the opinion of Anthony Eden, "might well be the decisive factor." The so-called Empire Air Training Plan went into gear last week with the arrival in Ottawa of commissions from Australia and New Zealand. Preparatory work had been done by a committee headed by Arthur Balfour Baron Riverdale of Sheffield, 62, one of Britain's biggest, baldest, blondest, bluffest steel tycoons. Heading the Australian delegation...
...recent Congressional debate on neutrality, the slick shipping lobbies worked with might and main to modify the ironclad "carry" provisions backed by the Administration. They got nowhere, but they didn't give up. So, as soon as the Neutrality Act was passed, they bobbed up again with a plan to transfer U. S. ships to Panama registry and sail them into war zones...
...this plan is put into effect, it will nullify the protection of the "carry" legislation. The ships would be transferred to a country completely under U. S. domination, and utterly unable to defend them in war zones, while the vessels would still be owned by U. S. corporations. Change of registry would be not only a capitulation to war profiteers, but an unneutral act with grave possibilities of U.S. involvement...
...President wants to help the Allies in every way short of war, it seems likely that his heart was never really in the cash and carry law. To him it was no more than a quick way to drive a shrewd political bargain. And now the Panama registry plan has evidently appeared to the President an easy means of retrieving a part of the price he had to pay. With it, he can not only do the Allies a good turn, but also placate the aroused shipping interests...