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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Departments had whacked up a precautionary war budget of $20,000,000,000 for a single year, $2,000,000,000 of it for further increases in the military forces, when & if necessary. The Gallup index to his personal popularity leaped from 56.6% in August to 61%-only 1.5% short of his re-election majority in 1936. Finally, in the oval office where maps graphed the death of Poland, he received six Republicans, nine Democrats, but no confirmed isolationists, to confer on national unity for Peace...
Sumner Welles, outlining the agenda, dropped one exceedingly important hint. The U. S. might be on its way to some big-time developing in Latin America. In order to assure economic cooperation, he said, the U. S. would tender its neighbor loans, short term for "current matters," long term for "purchase of rail and mill equipment, heavy goods...
Hinge of the "door" was the Fifth Army commanded by the German Crown Prince Starting from the Trier-Saarbrtücken area (where fighting is most active this time), his course was through Luxembourg and Longwy in a short arc southwest to Verdun. The Fourth Army, under Duke Albrecht, was to swing in a wider arc through Luxembourg into the dense Ardennes forest, cross the Meuse and the Aisne northwest of the Crown Prince's Army, and sweep south toward Châlons. Other concentric arcs were mapped for the Third and Second Armies under Generals Hausen...
...time to rise, the Dutch mined all roads and bridges entering their country from Germany. They erected tank obstructions and traps, leaving only one lane open for normal traffic on each highway bridge. Their Army stood mobilized at about 650,000 under Lieut. General I. H. Reynbers, 60, a short, jolly infantryman who was the personal appointee of Queen Wilhelmina five years...
Russell Sage's James Laurence Meader (an exception): "England and France . . . have the right to expect every type of service we are capable of rendering short of sending an expeditionary army. . . . [We must come] to their active assistance at once rather than wait until we find it necessary to fight Hitler and all that he stands for single-handed...