Word: power
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...loose, the plight of the warring democracies and the widening sphere of the dictatorships (see p. 28). Casually, as though he were stating familiar trivia, he reaffirmed what he said last year: that the U. S. will not stand idly by if any expanding foreign power attempts to muscle in on Canada on the north or-he added last week-France's possessions in the Caribbean and South America...
...together with this attitude, we must keep faith that we can remain at peace. Perhaps faith can move mountains. At any rate, fatalistic discouragement is the best high-road to the low-land of war. Keep faith, lest the patient die for lack of will-power...
This is the reason why America must do everything within her power--"measures short of war"--to aid the Allies. It is a very simple and a very selfish reason: the best chance of our remaining neutral is the success of Allied arms. It is sufficient reason for the immediate lifting of the arms embargo and a willingness to send the Allies all the munitions and raw materials which they can purchase. All this, of course, within the limits of cash and carry, the loan embargo, and control of American citizens or shipping...
...inappropriate, to say the least, when Stalin collectivized agriculture at the attested cost of 5,000,000 peasant lives. Lenin continually and publicly admitted his mistakes; Stalin gradually would tolerate nothing but adulation. And behind the façade of the U. S. S. R., the great Socialist world power, a late Roman corruption grew fantastically until to the west the façade seemed torn open by the "purge" of 1936-37, blasted by the Pact...
EUROPE ON THE EVE-Frederick L. Schuman-Knopf ($3.50). A night-must-fall account of Europe's power politics in the tragic era, 1933-39, by a thoroughgoing scholar whose hatred for Naziism (with which, he claims, British Tories made a prearranged deal at Munich) leads to wishful-thinking...