Word: american
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Englishman and the American...
...Thomas S. Gordon of Illinois-of "malice and shortsightedness." What was Spain going to do about the U.S.? Cried Arriba: "The answer is simple. Nothing. We are going to do nothing at all. We don't need the U.S. for military adventures. Our fleet does not need American ports. Our bombers do not need American aerodromes . . . But we are not so sure that the U.S. will not someday need us ... The Pyrenees [will always be] a solid barrier defended by men with guts and not by existentialists...
Cannon at Saratoga. The editorial ended on an odd and not entirely accurate note: "We want to remind American parliamentarians that the big, friendly American republic still owes us 2,000,000 gold pounds, 216 bronze cannon, 29 mortars, 12,806 cannon balls, 30,000 rifles with bayonets and 30,000 uniforms-the uniforms that Washington's men wore after Valley Forge and the cannons that won the Battle of Saratoga.* It is thanks to these rifles and cannon that Messrs. Pfeifer and Zablocki and Gordon are American "Congressmen today...
Such footnotes to the American Revolution made interesting reading but Arriba was not quite telling all. Hoping to weaken both British imperialism and the threat of a people's government in the New World, Spain had sent the colonies secret shipments of clothing, salt and munitions through the private mercantile house of Gardoqui & Sons-but only in quantities calculated to protract the struggle without making a real decision possible. When Washington's army began winning important victories, Spanish interest in the Revolution abruptly vanished...
Charlie Brannan was piqued. The American Farm Bureau Federation, the nation's largest and most potent farm group, had not even invited him to be a speaker at its 31st annual convention. Furthermore, the Secretary of Agriculture was pretty sure that the federation was preparing to crunch his controversial farm-support plan like so much Shredded Wheat and douse it with sour milk...