Word: protectionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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For the greater part of its history the U. S. has lived under the umbrella of protection provided by the British Fleet. Until World War I the U. S. never attempted to claim naval parity and by that time was thoroughly satisfied with a century-old tacit understanding which made...
The Fleet. U. S. isolation has been a practical foreign policy largely because Britain was friendly. For this arrangement, the U. S. repaid her. At the back door of Asia the U. S. Fleet has long stood guard, setting up outposts in the Philippines and Hawaii to prevent seizure of...
Such a fleet would constitute considerable protection for the U. S. but the protection would have a price. In the nature of things this price would have to include:
U. S. Problem. Dangerous as Hitler is, the U. S. is no mean adversary for him, provided it takes the steps necessary to prepare for the expected challenge. On the asset side the U. S. is already a great, rich, well-fed, homogeneous nation compared to Hitler's Europe...
To the foreign press assembled in the gaudy scarlet-gilt-ivory conference room of the Propaganda Ministry and to the radio world at large, Rosenberg proclaimed a Nazi-dominated "Community of Fate" embracing Sweden, Norway and Denmark. "Fate," he declared, "so willed it that the German Reich has taken under...