Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...basis and that this does not mean that the U. S. must Pay in the same year that it Spends. On top of this, he declared that pay-as-you-go Rearmament does not necessarily entail new taxes. Since the U. S. is still running whopping deficits, the implication was that Rearmament must replace some other form of spending, but the President went on to say that military spending is to be solely for military purposes, and not for pump-priming or re-employment...
...Today he is at the peak of his mental and physical vitality. . . . The only thing old about John Garner is his philosophy. He still believes in the old-fashioned virtues of economy, thrift and self-reliance. . . . We do, however, plant our feet firmly upon Democratic and American tradition in respect to terms of service...
...alliances. They were willing to damn totalitarianism in general-but no specific totalitarian state in particular. ("The position of America is one of collaboration, not rebuke," said General Benavides.) They were willing to accept the principle of Argentina's strictures against disruptive foreign political movements-but those who still clung to the principle of civil liberties could not accept it in detail. The South and Central American States were ready to trade their coffee, rubber, ores for U. S. money and machinery-but the U. S. could not take any of their cotton or much of their beef. That...
...fact, Mr. Chamberlain was clutching not much more than a bare stick as he watched the "appeased" Germans unleash their full brutality against the Jews and agitate revolution in Rumania (see p. 15), as he watched the Rumanians shoot and jail their own Nazis, as he watched two wars still going on while French and Italians were worried about another...
...Georgian peasant like Stalin, Beria in 1917, when still a student joined the Georgian Communist Party, then presided over by Stalin. Until last summer all his work was in the Transcaucasian republics, especially Georgia, where he headed the secret police for 16 years. He is known as the "Stalin of the Caucasus." Now 39, he is one of several younger officials recently given high government posts which the oft-purged older generation of Bolsheviks is apparently either incompetent or afraid to fill...