Word: threatens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Asked by Senator Reynolds as to how long American soldiers should fight abroad if they were sent, Conant replied, "I would like to see the Axis powers made so innocuous that they could not continue to threaten us as they are threatening...
Calling upon President Roosevelt to fulfill his pledge to keep this country out of war, the Harvard Committee Against Military Intervention will send to the President today a letter which states, "We feel that entry into a long and dangerous war would gravely threaten American democracy even if we were victorious...
...While we detest totalitarianism in any guise, we feel that entry into a long and dangerous war would gravely threaten American democracy even if we were victorious. But America's most pressing responsibilities lie among our own people and in our own hemisphere. We advocate hemisphere cooperation and defence in accordance with these duties as our best service to democracy and to the world. We favor measures to prevent profiteering in the crisis, and we are against any encroachment on social gains...
Germany may prefer not to have a major front in the Balkans-one which might repeat the patterns of 1918. British and Greek successes in the Mediterranean area threaten to swell the Greek conflict into such a front. The threat, it is true, was last week not immediate, since General Sir Archibald Wavell's continued advance into Libya (see p. 25) seemed to indicate Britain was committed to destroying Italy's Libyan Army, to the exclusion of new business for some time to come. Neither was the threat too serious: the Salonika campaign by which the Allies conquered...
...there be any doubt that the Clemenceaus and the Lloyd Georges will gather 'round again, that just as war hysteria is whipped up, so will be the hysteria of punishment for Germany? There will be an irresistible demand to lay the aggressors so low that they can never again threaten any democracy. A new and more terrifying Hitler will arise, and we may realize, too late, that war breeds only more...