Word: powerfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...peace in Europe hangs on the calculations and miscalculations of a few men in power, and there is a major unknown in their calculations: In case of war can they or can their enemies rely on the economic resources of the U. S.? If one of the men in power is tempted to take a bad gamble on that question, the U. S. may be indirectly responsible for launching a World...
...street, entered the White House offices where he was closeted with President Herbert Hoover. Three days later a U. S. note went out to call Japan's attention to the Kellogg-Briand Peace pact. A copy of the note went to the other signatories of the Nine-Power Treaty in order to invite them to cooperate in putting pressure on Japan...
Three weeks later Japanese bombs were falling on the flimsy wooden hovels of Chapei, a section of Shanghai and 24,000 Chinese were killed or wounded in the ensuing holocaust. Once again Colonel Stimson tried to rally Britain by suggesting that the Nine-Power Treaty, guaranteeing the territorial integrity of China, which Japan had signed at Washington in 1922, be invoked. Once again Sir John Simon turned his back. The Japanese, undisturbed, made mince meat of the heroic Chinese 19th Route Army...
...instigation of Bernard M. Baruch, wise old chairman of the onetime War Industries Board, it added to the provisions of the earlier acts, authority for the President to forbid the export of any goods to a warring nation except on a cash & carry basis. He never used this power and two months ago it expired...
...Power Politics. Should Congress shut up shop and go home without passing any new neutrality legislation this summer, the previous legislation-minus "cash & carry"-will still stand. If the fight over neutrality laws is too long and too futile, a growing disgust may lead Congress and the people to wash their hands of the whole business and fall back on old-fashioned international...