Word: quids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...come and go as he pleased within the confines of the Reich. During his captivity, 59-year-old Author Wodehouse, who was captured when he tarried too late at a cocktail party at his villa in Le Touquet in May 1940, was rated a model prisoner. But on a quid pro quo basis good conduct seemed hardly enough to warrant such great generosity from the Nazis. Then its logic appeared...
Mario Appelius "offered" Canada, Newfoundland, Australia, New Zealand, the Bahamas, Jamaica and Bermuda to the U. S. as part of its living space in a Fascist "new world order," and all he asked as quid pro quo was that the U. S. should recognize Europe and Asia as the Lebensraum of Germany, Italy and Japan. (La Stampa of Turin, still more generous, offered the U. S. South and Central America as "living space...
...Empire. The U. S. has not the force to undertake the defense not only of Canada and the British West Indies (which it must defend anyhow for its own self-interest) but of Australia and New Zealand, Hong Kong and Singapore, India and South Africa. The only satisfactory quid pro quo the U. S. could offer probably would involve going to war with Germany, for Britain would have no incentive to save her fleet unless the U. S. offered her hope of victory...
...America and the totalitarian States, in a new Association of Nations with regional departments such as the Pan-American Union, the British Commonwealth of Nations, a European Federation, a Pacific Conference, the U. S. S. R. What distinguishes Mr. Buell's intricate program is a realistic sense of quid pro quo: e.g., a Danubian Union would need guarantees from Britain; to give them Britain would need a guarantee from the U. S. "to protect North and South American commerce with any European state resisting an aggressor...
...shadow crew of 378 was signed on "for the run to Southampton," at four quid two and ten (about...