Word: protecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...honor troops, toasts in champagne, a wooden platform for speechmaking, an international broadcast, armfuls of flowers, and certain other super-soldierly amenities. Each of the Nazi bosses drank a tasteful toast to the birthday man. Keitel: "Big and gigantic successes. . . ." Goring: "You, my Führer. . . ." Hess: "God protect our Führer...
...involved in convoying are less than the danger which our country and our institutions would be in if Britain should be conquered. Seventy-one per cent of the voters favored convoying "if it appears certain that Britain will be defeated unless we use part of our Navy to protect ships going to Britain." I am reluctant to believe that the majority of Harvard undergraduates take a less realistic view of the situation. Professor E. Merrick Dodd...
Coupled with the Greenland trial balloon, Mr. Roosevelt made it "evident . . . from the discussion with correspondents that he views the neutrality patrol as capable of almost unlimited extension and a means likely to protect shipping as effectively as convoys." "Neutrality patrol" is rapidly becoming synonymous to "convey...
...United States is to assume the obligation of guaranteeing delivery of goods, half measures or less than half measures will not be enough" he continued. "It will be necessary to protect merchant ships wherever they may be. This will involve our government in naval and military operations of unpredictable extent...
...cent of the nation which does favor using American ships and sailors to protect goods going to Britain is the militant quarter of the population, and that quarter is in control of the Government. An Administration majority for convoys could certainly be obtained in the Congress, or, with the facile Mr. Jackson explaining legal points, the Administration might initiate protection service by executive decree. With congressional elections a good year and a half away and Presidential voting two long years after that, the temptation to go ahead and take action must be tremendous...