Word: aggressors
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...polite "go to hell" attitude was forsaken during the short life of the Soviet-Nazi pact when Japan, fearful of this unexpected move on the part of her traditional enemy, found it wise to turn smilingly to America. Despite all talk of economic sanctions, we continued to help both aggressor and aggressee by loans to China to enable Chiang Kai-shek to carry on his part of the war, and by huge shipments of materials to the invader as well. Since 1937, the American market has been the single most important adjunct of Japan's war machine, enabling the destructive...
...Otherwise a precedent has been set by which any nation in the world can violate those treaties without fear of international intervention to preserve peace. Any aggressor nation hereafter can say, and justly, that the powers accepted Japan's action as not violating these treaties. That is not an imaginary danger...
...things were certain: 1) Although the Nazis insisted that the Greer had been the aggressor, they did not mind having it known that a U-boat had tangled with the U. S. Navy- perhaps they thought the news would give the U.S. pause. 2) The U.S. Navy, which has long had warheads on its torpedoes, will not, next time if it can help it, wait to be attacked before attacking...
...Anything and everything, short only of an expeditionary force . . . must be sent to Britain to defeat Hitler . . . the Beast of Berlin," he cried. And again, his voice hoarse with intensity: "I say to you . . . it is time to stop appeasing Japan or any other aggressor nation...
...aggressor is surprised, startled, staggered. For the first time in his experience, mass murder has become unprofitable. He retaliates by the most frightful cruelties. . . . Famine and pestilence have yet to follow in the bloody ruts of Hitler's tanks. We are in the presence of a crime without a name...