Word: sending
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yamamoto: Regarding the matrimonial question. I shall send you another message...
...seven months, the U.S. was pledged to knock the chocks from under the Philip pine ship of state and send it sliding into the treacherous sea of independence. War had holed the uncompleted hull. Hurriedly the Administration in Washington planned a patching job. Last week, while the tools and blueprints were still being got together, it sent Indiana's slightly dented political knight-errant, Paul V. McNutt, off to Manila as High Com missioner, to straw-boss the work...
...directing General Peck to send an emissary to [Lwanhsien] to inform the Communist leader that if the fire continues against our forces, I will order an air strafing mission against the village...
...delegate (probably earnest, white-topped Edward R. Stettinius Jr., to whom the job has long been promised); 2) the delegate, with ambassadorial rank, would act only on presidential order, never on his own initiative; 3) the President would be empowered, through his delegate and without asking Congress, to send a limited number of U.S. troops anywhere...
...President and his UNO delegate. Nor did it mean that the President would now be scot-free to get the U.S. into a series of meddling and unconstitutional wars to back up the nation's Charter pledges. U.S. Presidents have always had the power to send their troops into battle-they have done so many times without committing the nation to war. But Congress has always reserved, and still reserves, the right to follow the shock troops with armies...