Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...neutrality for the opening of World War II. This week a FORTUNE survey will show that: 1) two-thirds of the American people are against a strict U. S. isolationist policy; only 25% oppose all trade with belligerents; 2) 83% want Britain and France to win the war; 65% thought they could (before Russia came in); 3) 17% are willing to send U. S. armed forces to fight for the Allies, and 20% favor helping them by all means short of war. Further FORTUNE findings...
Three responsible men tried last week to tell Great Britain just what sort of war the Government thought it would be-how long, how cruel, how futile...
History. Everybody thought the Germans were fast, but Russians found them particularly impressive. Nineteen years ago last August Russians, too, were knocking at the gates of Warsaw. In the spring of that year Pilsudski had invaded the Russian Ukraine, been driven back so far that on August 12 Marshal Tukachevsky, following a plan worked out by a Tsarist general in 1831, circled Warsaw to the North; SimeonBudenny,with the Red Cavalry, had taken Lwow; a third force was ready to encircle Warsaw from the South; Dzerzhinsky, Polish-born nobleman, ruthless organizer of the Cheka, waited outside Warsaw to spring...
...Portugal Herbert Claiborne Pell, old friend & college mate of President Roosevelt, sententious, well-stuffed socialite who delights in shocking his stumer friends, embarked for Portugal to resume his diplomatic duties. Asked if Portugal would become a hot spot, he replied: "I wouldn't be going back if I thought so. I'm no hero...
...purchases away in baby's perambulator carted away canned goods by the case, flour by the 50 lb. sack. The squirrel instinct was at work. With a strange reversion to the memories of World War I, U. S. housewives were building up hoards against a winter which they thought would bring high prices and short food supplies...