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Immediate effect of this historic Roosevelt document was to cut the ground from under all previous thinking and talking about his foreign policy (see p. 13). It clarified once & for all the fact that Franklin Roosevelt positively expected war abroad unless some one's will-to-peace, as well as "the arms of the Democracies, was stronger than the Dictators' will-to-war. It tended to absolve Franklin Roosevelt from previous charges of "war-mongering." Whether or not his invitation was accepted-and his ten-year clause made acceptance look impossible-it kept open the way to some...
...petty resistance and pushed their way up the steep mountain grades to the Capital. In two days they had occupied all the important points of the country, with casualties of only 21 killed, 97 wounded. The Albanian Army vanished into the fastnesses of Albania's Dinaric Alps where, unless the Sons of the Eagle (as the Albanians call themselves) have changed since the Turks dealt with them for five centuries, they can be expected to put up a guerrilla warfare until Kingdom Come...
...Dick and Harry may, if they wish, declare themselves candidates for the Presidency of France. Last week, on the eve of election day, a perennial named Lop popped up with an infallible secret formula for peace, which he refused to reveal unless elected. A druggist from the small fishing port of Honfleur arrived at Versailles covered with medals, brandishing a pistol, demanding admittance to the Palace to make a speech on his qualifications. A third was an old-timer with sweeping grey mustaches, fiery eyes and the extraordinary name of Monsieur Cochon...
...country engaged in war, the minority wanted the Congress to pass resolutions for prohibiting the sale of goods of any kind to belligerent nations; for forbidding American ships to travel to belligerents; and for stating that the U. S. would take no stand on collective security against forcible aggression unless it also advocated some technique for "peaceful change...
WASHINGTON--Secretaries Hall and Morgenthan, after conferring with President Roosevelt, reflect four of general war unless Nazi-Fascist threats to world economic structure are curbed. Sen. Byrnes reveals plan to dispose of surplus farm stocks abroad through barter system designed to give U.S. huge war supplies...