Word: remains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...member of his Cabinet, the President had, at least for the time being, once more won political support from many whom he had alienated. Besides putting the bothersome question of Justice Hugo Black out of the headlines, he had provided himself with an active-peace issue which promised to remain popular unless it threatened to involve the U. S. in war. Meantime he kept the nation guessing whether his proposed quarantine was to consist of diplomatic pressure, of voluntary boycotts of Japanese goods, or some positive form of economic sanctions...
...Both Germany and Russia, needing good pilots at home, try to see that such "volunteers" as they have sent to Spain actually remain instructors, do as little fighting as possible. But while German volunteers are generally 18 to 20 years old, completing their own army training under actual battle conditions, Russian "volunteers" are fortyish, of the generation of Old Bolsheviks now being liquidated by Steel Man Stalin. Recently Russia has sent no more Soviet aviators, but gladly trains Spanish Leftist cadets on Russian soil...
...last week told the American Club of Paris in a fervent after-luncheon speech: "We have found with emotion and pride in the President's Chicago speech an echo of all the principles to which we are passionately attached! . . . We who are pacific must in these perilous times remain strong and united but we must also be conciliant and resolute. . . . We hope passionately that our appeals for peace, which are profoundly sincere, will be understood...
...journeyed to the annual Conservative Party Conference at Scarborough. There Government & Party Leader Chamberlain, in the course of delivering a speech which stressed British Rearmament and was wildly cheered, said: "Hitherto it has been assumed that the United States of America -the most powerful country in the world -would remain content with a frankly isolationist policy. But President Roosevelt has seen that if what he calls an epidemic of world lawlessness is allowed to spread no country will be safe from attack...
...planned to leave Boston at 10:55 o'clock Friday morning instead of the 10:30 hour originally planned, but otherwise the itinerary will remain the same...