Word: standpoint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japan did not know whether it was in on this latest war or not. Its attitude toward Greece would be "considered from a practical political standpoint, not in the strict literal sense." Since Albania, an Italian possession, was "attacked" by Greece, Japan dishonored her five-week-old mutual-defense pact with the Axis by not going to Italy...
Their conclusions, if any, were high naval secrets, but lesser Navy men and civilian experts were at work on the same problem. From the standpoint of strategy, is the time good or bad for a war with Japan? What could the Japanese and U. S. fleets do, if they were matched against each other...
...From the standpoint of power politics the pact amounted to raising the ante in the hope of frightening the U. S. into dropping its hand so the Axis could rake in the pot. But if the Axis hoped to frighten the U. S. out of its everything-short-of-war policy of helping Great Britain, it had almost certainly failed. Since U. S. security in the Atlantic - hence liberty to maintain her Fleet in the Pacific-depends on the British Fleet, the U. S. could now do no less than help Britain more...
Power. The public development of hydroelectric power. "From the standpoint of the Treasury, the records of the great public power projects at Boulder . . .and at Bonneville . . . are reassuring. Both are liquidating their commitments to the Government. . . . Where irreconcilable conflicts arise . . . private holdings should not be confiscated, and we now have a working precedent . . in the recent acquisition by purchase of private companies by the Tennessee Valley Authority." (Wendell Willkie had read this section of the speech in advance...
...From the standpoint of a would-be invader from Europe, there are two obvious approaches for an attack on the U. S. One is the Caribbean islands (TIME, July 29). The other is eastern Canada. On the two following pages, TIME presents a map of eastern Canada and the North Atlantic coast. A mixing pot for villainous weather through the winter months, it is nevertheless an area in which military operations were carried on, winter and summer, before and during the Revolution and the War of 1812. Over its forested stretches commercial aircraft today operate regularly in summer, with more...