Word: subjection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quickly learned that neither Congress nor President has the final definition of "materials of war." As it did in the first World War, to the vexation of the U. S., Great Britain declared almost every conceivable necessity of life in wartime to be contraband and therefore subject to blockade (see p. 22), making paperwork of the Neutrality Act's precise delineations between military and non-military materials...
...Franklin Roosevelt had just announced his decision not to furnish U. S. naval convoys to returning refugees (see p. 9) and John Kennedy was abruptly taken aback to find that this subject was passionately uppermost in his interviewers' minds...
Great Britain and Germany came out of World War I with diametrically opposed attitude toward propaganda. Defeated Germans, unwilling to believe in military defeat, believed that Allied cleverness in propaganda, their own clumsiness in it, was largely responsible. On the subject both Generals Ludendorff and Hindenburg were almost pathological. Manifestoed Hindenburg: "The enemy . . . seeks to poison our spirit. . . . His airmen throw down leaflets which are intended to kill the soul...
...Britain, where at the first crack of war all transmitters but two were shut down, British Broadcasting Corp. resumed its normal schedules, announced that the Government would impose no penalty on a British subject for listening to foreign stations...
...Finland halted preparations for the 1940 Olympic Games scheduled to be held at Helsingfors next summer, pondered their cancelation-just as the 1916 Olympics, scheduled for Berlin, were called off because of World War I. Although Germany was mum on the subject last week, sportsmen the world over took it for granted that the 1940 Winter Olympics were off. They had been awarded to Germany's Garmisch-Partenkirchen after Japan had chucked them, along with the summer Olympics, because of the "incident" in China...