Word: shielding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...basic principles for the peace. Most important: the peace should be based on common agreements among many nations rather than any Big Power Alliance. Thus he put up a "stop, look & listen" sign across the path of the Lippmann bandwagon. Columnist Lippmann's U.S. Foreign Policy, Shield of the Republic (TIME, June 14), more than any other single statement, has popularized the idea of a longtime military alliance with Britain, the Soviet Union, and, if possible, China.* Editor Armstrong answers: U.S. interests have no limits. They fringe out all over the world, and it is just in the outermost...
American Mural. In Boise, Idaho, the FBI hoped that somebody would catch Leo Laverne Leroy, suspected parole violator, with his shirt down. His identifying tattoos: two American flags, a rising sun, a shield with an eagle, a bird, a rose, a butterfly, two stars, a sailing ship, a crucifix, an Indian girl, a heart, a spread eagle, a ballet dancer, a dragon, a sail boat, a girl's head, some flowers, a brace let, three hearts, a setting sun, a Pearl Harbor scene, three race horses, and the legends: "U.S.A. 1931" and "Manila...
...soon it was plain that they were depending more heavily on another weapon. The frantic enemy was firing torpedo spreads. I had turned away, momentarily blinded by gun glare, and was hanging on to the bridge shield when I saw the white track of a torpedo shooting straight for us. A signalman saw it too, and yelled, but it was too late to turn...
...this occasion was unquestionably blue, and a pale blue at that. It is a starting-point open to all. So very gingerly I mixed a little blue paint . . . and then with infinite precaution made a mark about as big as a bean upon the affronted snow-white shield. It was a challenge . . . but so subdued, so halting, indeed so cataleptic, that it deserved no response...
...FOREIGN POLICY: SHIELD OF THE REPUBLIC - Walter Lippmann - Little, Brown...