Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Italian seaman with no love for Il Duce tipped off a customs official that Italian ships in U. S. ports were being systematically sabotaged by their crews. In a few hours word reached the President. Back came an order from the Potomac: seize all German and Italian ships to prevent their being further damaged; put all Danish ships in protective custody. In Washington, tall, mild, Acting Treasury Secretary Herbert Earle Gaston put his finger on Section I of Title II of the Espionage Act of June 15, 1917, authorizing seizure of foreign vessels "to prevent damage or injury...
...total of 875 officers and crew members were detained, pending deportation proceedings. An apparently concerted plot to scuttle or wreck all Axis ships in U. S. waters, to prevent their eventual seizure by the U. S. for aid-to-Bntain, had been broken. The Stars & Stripes were run up on the Italian and German ships; Coast Guardsmen patrolled docks...
...membership is convinced that the feeding of neutral and German occupied Europe, as well as unoccupied France, represents a problem that directly concerns the United States. We cannot stand by idly when it is in our power to prevent the peoples of the European democracies from suffering famine and starvation. First and foremost, because to do so would be against the humanitarian spirit of democracy. Secondly, because contagion from the diseases that accompany starvation knows no boundaries or military fronts. Thirdly, because it would seem politically unwise for a nation that believes in the spirit of democracy...
...contrast to Castle, Professor Hop per views Russia as the best bet for a potential U. S. friend. Canceling Japan as a temporary obstacle, he advocated as foreign policy, "anything to prevent the eventual marriage of Russia and the German revolution...
With Great Britain and Greece, as well as pro-British Turkey and wavering Yugoslavia, taking heart from the passage of the Lend-Lease Bill, it looked as if Yosuke Matsuoka's trip would be a race between German power politics and time. If Germany could outmaneuver Britain and prevent the formation of a four-power front in the Balkans, then the demands on Japan might be limited to expressions of amity. But if things went badly for Germany in Europe, Japan might be called on to create a diversion for the U. S. in the Pacific. And that...