Word: stay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Today America wishes to remain neutral. Tomorrow she may not. Today America has a holy resolve to stay out of war--a resolve such as she never had in 1916. It is born of twenty-five years of clever peaceways advertising; it is born of the opinion that these United States were badly used in the last war, of the feeling that European quarrels can and should remain...
...Allies begin to fall back, come what may. Theirs is now a cheerless outlook, unless M. Gamelin is as canny a magician as British propagandists would have us believe. Then Americans wishing to remain neutral must retreat to a second line: they must make a new resolve to stay out of this war at any price--Allies win or lose. They must maintain this resolve above the partners, hatred and sympathy. Successful in this they are successful in their...
...cynical view of many a New Dealer was last week expressed by Kenneth G. Crawford, who wrote in the Nation: "Is the Roosevelt Administration neutral? Certainly not. Is there any chance of the U. S. to stay out of another world war? Practically none. Will the Rooseveit program of liberal reform go on in the event of a general war? It will not. . . . Would the outbreak of a war mean a third term for President Roosevelt? Probably...
...lives a life of almost ascetic simplicity, smokes the cheapest cigarets; lives in a quiet eight-room apartment decorated with old porcelain, with crystal and with Renaissance, 19th Century French and Smigly-Rydz oils; never wears more than one medal; rides early each morning; likes to stay at home with his charming, quiet wife, who does her own cooking and thinks the wives of Messrs. Beck and Moscicki are chronic climbers...
Other correspondents may be lucky enough to send such stories of this war, but it is not likely, for, 24 hours after war began last week, censorship had clamped down over Europe. In Berlin the Army Command announced that no foreign correspondents would be allowed to stay at the front and that all those now in military areas must leave. War communiqués would be issued once a day. From time to time groups of correspondents would be taken "wherever activities were especially interesting." Berlin censored all dispatches, but correspondents reported no evidence that they had been suppressed...