Word: rejected
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last winter Ratner sent the Legislature a special message which led to an almost unanimous resolution urging Congress to reject the Lend-Lease bill. But last week he stunned the American Legion State Convention in Topeka with one of the most rousing speeches ever heard in Kansas...
...sympathizers] even ask me to negotiate with Hitler-to pray for crumbs from his victorious table. They do, in fact, ask me to become the modern Benedict Arnold and betray all I hold dear-my devotion to our freedom-to our churches-to our country. This course I have rejected-I reject it again...
Other skirmishes in the underground battle for the Hemisphere: ^ To the Government of Mexico, Germany sent a politely threatening note, suggesting that Mexico "reject" the new U.S. export ban on business houses giving financial support to the Nazis. Mexico's Foreign Minister Ezequiel Padilla bluntly retorted that the note was "imperious and unacceptable...
...speaker's table. He warned Japan that, while Britain had no desire to pick a quarrel, she would not let her interests in the Far East be set aside. He warned the U.S. that Hitler would soon make a specious peace offer, which Britain would reject ("For sheer efficiency as a liar, Hitler stands alone in history...
...advocate full responsible participation on the part of the United States in the democratic struggle against the Axis to the extent, if necessary, of actual entrance into the war. . . . We reject the doctrine of historical inevitability. ... So far as we can see, neither totalitarianism nor democracy is fated to prevail in our age. Which of these will emerge . . . will be determined in large part by the present efforts of the supporters of democracy...