Word: aggressor
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...attitude of the United States. The Nye-Clark resolutions, which express a willingness to abandon our traditional insistence on the "freedom of the seas" in a technically legal sense, would--if adopted--encourage the English in the belief that the American navy would not oppose British blockade of an aggressor nation. Thus the way for acceptance by England of greater responsibility for the maintenance of peace actually a strengthening of the League of Nations--would be opened...
...motto. For Poles the choice of the future lies between reverting to their old-time French alliance or sticking with Germany. "Our crushing dilemma," said a highly placed Pole last week, "is that if the Nazis fly to arms against the Bolsheviks or vice versa, in either case the aggressor will attack Poland first. Who are our real friends...
...agreed that one of the negative causes of the last War was Britain's reluctance to come out squarely on the subject of her relations with France, to state in as many words that if France were attacked, and Belgian neutrality violated, England would join forces against the aggressor. Today, if the Russians are right, an identical situation has arisen, and again Britain holds the key to European peace. A positive statement of her policy would almost surely postpone another large-scale War until a new system of alliances has formed. There will be strife in the near future only...
Having thus branded the U. S. a potential aggressor, Ambassador Saito polished off his oration by reminding Philadelphia that Japan is perfectly willing to scrap the greater part of her Navy if only the U. S. and Britain will scrap more and bring themselves down to naval equality with the Son-of-Heaven's realm...
...sentimental outcry against the exterior manifestations of international antagonism will accomplish nothing, and even a return to the principle of parity, which would require sweeping concessions from the U. S., would only postpone the trouble. While one potential aggressor darkens the future, peace is only a truce, and if we would prolong that interlude, it is necessary to accomplish more than a reduction of navies...