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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Upon a time those words made U. S. bugles blow, flags wave, men march. Last week the bugles were still; the flags gathered dust in museums; many of those marching men had made a separate peace. And into another sort of grave-the pigeonholes of diplomacy-went the principle for which U. S. blood made red puddles in French mud 21 years...
...bill decreed: 1) When the President or Congress finds a state of war existing abroad, the President shall (i. e., must) name the belligerents. 2) After issuance of such a proclamation, no American vessel may carry passengers or goods to any named belligerents. 3) No goods of any sort may be shipped to belligerents until all rights, title and interest have been transferred abroad. 4) The President shall then proclaim combat areas, which no citizen or U. S. vessel may enter. 5) No U. S. citizen may travel on any belligerent's vessel. 6) No U. S. merchant ship...
...line on the patter and pattern of propaganda from its talkiest medium, CBS has had a staff of reporter-linguists listening day & night to Europe's radio since the first days of World War II. Main idea has been to enable CBS's home commentators to sort news from propaganda for radio listeners. But the by-product has been an increasing sheaf of notes, observations, comparisons, verbatim broadcasts which, by themselves, constitute a fairly complete documentation of the technique of war propaganda, as practiced by World War II's experts...
...Social Service division yesterday expressed the hope that a record number of students would volunteer to carry on the work with "underprivileged boys groups of Greater Boston." More than 1000 students on their registration-cards indicated a desire to participate in this sort of activity...
...course, America would look sorrowfully on any sort of German victory, and she should do what is in her power--short of war--to ensure an opposite result. Any Nazi success means an upsurge of this political and social creed, which would certainly be felt in the United States. But Mr. Greene has little faith in the virility of democracy and in American integrity if he considers this an overwhelming threat. And surely he will not proceed to the ridiculous argument of actual Nazi aggression on American soil...