Word: preventers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...United States and Great Britain do not now assume that there will never be any more war again. On the contrary, we intend to take ample precaution to prevent its renewal in any period we can foresee by effectively disarming the guilty nations while remaining suitably protected ourselves...
...against the U.S.'] from any of these bases . . . they must be kept under surveillance . . . and we must be ready to bomb such installations as soon as they are discovered. If the situation is sufficiently vital to require it, we must be prepared to seize these outlying bases to prevent their development by the enemy as bases of operation against...
...protective arc lies the Panama Canal-key to U.S. strategy in the Atlantic and the Pacific, certain target of any invader. Example: a sudden blow at the Canal from the Atlantic side when a big part of the U.S. Fleet is in the Atlantic-as it is nowadays-might prevent the rapid reinforcement of naval forces remaining in the Pacific...
...production and too much idle capacity victimized by defense priorities. Said C.I.O., "Within the next few weeks the nation will be shocked at the amount of 'priority unemployed.' " Senator O'Mahoney dropped a bill in the hopper that would amend the priorities law in order "to prevent bankruptcy for thousands of small manufacturers." From mouth to mouth passed OPM's most striking statistic: 75% of defense contracts have gone to 56 big firms...
Richard Hottelet, arrested March 15 by Berlin Gestapo agents on charges of spying for an "enemy power," was tossed into a tiny, grim cell in Alexanderplatz prison, deprived of even his eyeglasses "to prevent suicide," left strictly alone for three days-"the hardest and longest I ever spent." Thereafter grilled relentlessly, he was threatened but never tortured with "the brutal methods of the American police." Fed black bread, ersatz coffee, sour gruel and margarine, he was refused books and newspapers, exercised in goose step half an hour a week, received one bath in seven weeks. Shortly before his transfer...