Word: aggressor
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...there were a prospect of an aggressor launching an attack on Britain, with bombers raining death on London, I have no doubt what the decision of the Canadian people and Parliament would be. We would regard it as an act of aggression, menacing freedom in all parts of the British Commonwealth...
...these whopping trade losses. That credit must be divided between 1) the uncoordinated efforts of millions of individual shoppers, and 2) the organized activity that stems chiefly from two groups: the Joint Boycott Council (of the American Jewish Congress and Jewish Labor Committee) and the American Boycott Against Aggressor Nations (onetime Committee for a Boycott Against Japanese Aggression...
...universities been able to keep from disintegrating. Their books and buildings have been taken from them, and now in Kunming their preservation depends on aid from foreign nations. "It is our chance now to take up the cause of international scholarship and stand against the wanton imperialism of an aggressor nation...
Said Fischer: "The Neutrality Act ... is wrong in principle. We sell airplanes to France . . . because we want her to be stronger if attacked by a Fascist aggressor, but we refuse airplanes to Democratic Spain, which has already been attacked by two Fascist aggressors." Said Villard: "The purpose of this Act is to prevent our being drawn into war. . . . America must stay at peace. Who are we to set ourselves up to judge which side is right and which side is wrong...
...valuable; but in view of recent events, some of which had occurred when the petition was framed, a far more practical attitude would oppose the mandatory provisions of the neutrality act. This miscalled "Peace Act of 1937" can really promote peace only when it makes possible discrimination against an aggressor; so long as it continues to deny American support to the forces making for world order-and thus, by default, actually improves the position of those tending toward disorder-it will continue to endanger America's chances of living at peace. Instead of petitioning in behalf of a practically deceased...