Word: protecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chennault (U.S. Army, retired), adviser to Chiang Kai-shek's Air Force, left Chungking for the U.S. He rounded up U.S. volunteers to fly 100 new P-40s purchased from the U.S. If U.S. aid were to flow in over the Burma Road, U.S. flyers would have to protect it. All through the summer months Colonel Chennault whipped his volunteers (dubbed the "Flying Tigers") into shape. By the time he was ready to fight, he had an added incentive: the Japanese were now the enemies of his own country...
Last week this long-standing U.S. fear was laid low. The Latin American republics and Canada lined up solidly with the U.S. in a united anti-Axis front. After 118 years the Monroe Doctrine had become multilateral: the rest of the hemisphere had rallied to protect the U.S. as part of their hemisphere. Their decision, made not when victory was in immediate prospect, but in the face of an initial U.S. defeat, was an action which the U.S. would not soon forget...
...Government also acted, faster than ever before, to protect metal stocks. Automobile quotas, already skimpy, were cut still deeper: to about one-third of last year's level this month, one-fourth next month...
...organ of William Cardinal O'Connell of Boston, last week editorialized: "Wars can be just. Violence may be used against the unjust aggressor." Said the other U.S. holder of the red hat, Dennis Cardinal Dougherty of Philadelphia: "Like our fellow American citizens we will do our utmost to protect our country by winning the war, and...to that end we place at the disposal of our Government everything in our possession...
Members of the Naval unit will stand by to assist the regular air raid precaution personnel in order to protect U. S. Navy property here...