Word: unpreparedness
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>Declared that conscription should be enacted within two weeks, and warned that delay dragging into fall or winter might set back the U. S. defense program by a year. His unprepared statement, delivered at a press conference, surprised correspondents, who had previously got from him only a general approval of...
Canada was just as unprepared for modern war as the U. S. is at the present time. The progress made by a Government elected on a landslide since war was declared is simply
Immigration offices, consulates were unprepared to handle the sudden rush of border migrants. Mrs. Emma R. Anderson, of Windsor, argued hopelessly that she had to get across to Detroit, where she owned a furnished apartment. Only in the most desperate cases were regulations relaxed. Seventy-year-old Mrs. Mary Stables...
Said Mr. Stimson: "France has been conquered and the sea power of Great Britain seems to be trembling in the balance. . . . We may be next. It is now recognized that if a powerful enemy secured a base at [Puerto Rico, Bermuda, Newfoundland, Northeastern Canada] ... it could launch a devastating air...
> Unpredictable Senator Key Pittman of Nevada, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, handed reporters a statement that advised the British Government to abandon the British Isles to Hitler. Said he: "It is no secret that Great Britain is totally unprepared for defense and that nothing the United States has...