Word: protecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...interim working arrangement about the island itself. . . . It is plainly a question where the proper official attitude is to wait in order to see what actually happens in Martinique rather than to draw conclusions from what appears to be happening in Vichy. . . . What we must do . . . to protect our vital interests in this hemisphere, we must do . . . but [it] should be done as a practical measure in a transitional period. And we should invoke no general principles, formulate no new doctrines, and above all do nothing which can be interpreted or misinterpreted as a conclusive judgment that France is finally...
...also on the losses of the Axis Fleet. In a general way, if less than a third of the British Fleet is lost to Nazi air attacks, torpedoes, mines and naval attack, the rest would be roughly equal in tonnage to the present U. S. Fleet. Whether it could protect the North American seaboard and still keep open the sea routes to Africa, while the U. S. Fleet stayed in the Pacific, is questionable. But based in the Western Hemisphere, it would still be the major power in the Atlantic with a superiority of around 2-to-1 over...
...destroyed 1,500 drums of oil, 50 trucks. Domei, the official news agency, declared that this showed France had broken her agreement to close Indo-Chinese roads to Chinese war traffic. Two days later sensational reports appeared in the Japanese press that the French would soon "invite" Japan to "protect Indo-China against any possible attempts by the United States, Britain or the Chungking Government to interfere with the status...
...National Assembly by a majority of one vote. It contained no provision for the judiciary organization of the country, virtually no legislation governing finance, not even a definition of citizens' rights. The only point upon which the quarreling Royalists and Republicans could agree was specific legislation to protect the nation against a personal dictatorship. The late reign of Napoleon III still fresh in mind, the Assembly invested the Chamber of Deputies with extensive powers, enabling it to overturn the Government. Interpreting their Constitution broadly, leaving much to precedent, and ignoring certain parts of it (e.g., the law which gave...
...Britain instituted its "noninterference" policy in Spain. Italy and Germany-and Russia-continued to interfere. In 1937 China, a League member, was invaded by Japan. The League did nothing. In 1938 Russia proposed a joint demarche of Great Britain, France and the U. S. S. R. to protect Czecho-Slovakia, offered to carry out "to the letter" her guarantees to France and Czecho-Slovakia. Munich followed. In 1939, after Germany took the rest of Czecho-Slovakia, Russia proposed a six-power conference to devise resistance to further aggression. Great Britain said the proposal was "premature." A month later Russia proposed...