Word: stricting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This same King, without a word of gratitude or admiration for the soldiers of the Allies, has now handed the Belgian Army over to the invader. This decision was taken in strict contradiction to the feeling of his country and of the soldiers who had been putting up a magnificent effort...
...spell the end of American democracy. The now imminently possible defeat of Britain and France and triumph of Totalitarianism will even more certainly spell the end of American democracy. Attacked by an economic Blitzkrieg more deadly than an armed invasion, our only defense will be "fiveyear" plans, government subsidy, strict control of industry and production, a lower standard of living, and ultimate surrender of the freedom of press, radio and education...
...substantial aid to the Allies. G. O. P. leaders, from Alf Landon down, had warned him to go slow on Isolationism; local chiefs had told him how delighted they were at his continued open-mindedness on foreign affairs. That night Senator Taft spoke, made his strongest appeal yet for strict U. S. neutrality, financial as well as military, in World...
...always hard to make peace; it was hard to do it even in the last weeks of the World War. But it is impossible to get it when we are not even trying. It is impossible to get it when our retreat from strict neutrality has angered both sides, one because we profess moral sympathy but balk at active aid, the other because we sit behind a Neutrality Act hurling curses and threats. It is impossible to get it when we have given up hope and resorted to a huge program of preparedness...
...Crimson, along with other groups, is right in assuming that we were mistaken in entering the last war and that a German victory in Europe will not endanger our national existence, then the policy of strict neutrality is justified. But until those two propositions are proved, such a policy represents blind vanity, insofar as it assumes the general stupidity of our fathers, and dangerous shortsightedness, insofar as it fails to anticipate the repercussions of a Nazi victory in Europe. Charles O. Porter...