Word: attack
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Last week it was apparent that the tough talk had started well ahead of schedule. It was not very impressive to begin with. Fortnight ago Reich Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop launched an attack on the Monroe Doctrine on the eve of the Havana Conference (TIME, July 15). Last week Secretary of State Cordell Hull, before setting out for Havana with eight trade, monetary, agricultural and political experts, slapped back at another attempt to make trouble. From Costa Rica, Guatemala and Nicaragua came reports that Dr. Otto Reinebeck, German Minister to the Central American Republics, had circulated a note...
...unobtrusively calling on Latin-American Foreign Ministers with a personal good-neighborliness that disarmed suspicion. When Mr. Hull flared up at the new Nazi attempt to influence the Conference, he used a tough word: he called it "intimidation." There was no theory, he said, on which any nation could attack the Havana meeting; there was no reason for any nation to attack the sovereign rights of the countries involved. That sounded good in Central America. President Carias of Honduras praised Secretary Hull's tough talk; Central Americans announced that they were paying no attention to the German warning...
...members he said: "I'm a member of this committee and I want you men to give me this rule just because it's me." They gave him enough votes, and at last the bill was sent to the House. There Hatton Sumners made a final, vitriolic attack on it. With unfading zeal Mr. Dempsey stuck to his guns. The bill passed, 243-to-122. At week's end the Senate concurred, without debate. The final bill as approved by both Houses limited expenditure by a political party to $3,000,000 in a single year, limited...
...Fleet would be enough to dominate the Atlantic cannot be precisely answered. That depends partly on the types of vessels which escaped and also on the losses of the Axis Fleet. In a general way, if less than a third of the British Fleet is lost to Nazi air attacks, torpedoes, mines and naval attack, the rest would be roughly equal in tonnage to the present U. S. Fleet. Whether it could protect the North American seaboard and still keep open the sea routes to Africa, while the U. S. Fleet stayed in the Pacific, is questionable. But based...
...needs reconstruction help in order to live in peace in Europe; to invite the U. S. to enter into as much friendly trade as will supply him with strategic materials he needs; to prosecute trade and political penetration in South America in order to prepare for his ultimate attack-and perhaps to subsidize a few Nazi revolutions; even to promise to make a lasting peace with the U. S. on condition that the U.S. stop rearmament. In these and other ways, including propaganda for "international friendship" he may succeed in postponing U. S. preparations for defense and hastening the time...