Word: brink
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...proclaimed to pray for peace, by attending the ivy-covered St. James Episcopal Church in Hyde Park. With him were Mrs. Roosevelt and their refugee guests, Crown Princess Martha and the Countess Ostgaard of Norway, who heard the Rev. Frank R. Wilson declare: ". . . We are on the brink of the greatest catastrophe of all times...
...Brink." After the President's warlike speech at the University of Virginia last June, promising all possible aid to crumbling France and beleaguered Britain, the Post-Dispatch cried in an editorial titled How We Are Being Led to the Brink: "President Roosevelt cannot be trusted to keep this country neutral...
Meanwhile, the St. Louis Star-Times, ardently for Roosevelt and all his works, looked on with increasing wrath. When To the Brink appeared, the Star-Times lashed out with a caustic editorial of its own on page 1. Missouri's New Deal Representative Thomas Carey Hennings Jr. read the Star-Times answer into the Congressional Record, and the Post-Dispatch crusade exploded into a full-fledged editorial...
...into proper psychological and physical condition for a fight that he seriously believes will never come off." His plan for conditioning potential U. S. fighters is to show them step by step how England's failure to take war seriously from 1933 to 1939 brought her to the brink...
...whims of internal politics. It must think in world terms and regardless of quarrels about what party should be in power at home, it must acquire the tradition of carrying on a strong, consistent foreign policy, a tradition whose failure has brought France to downfall and Britain to the brink of downfall. To become mistress of the seas would be an outright reversal of U. S. isolationism, but it is a policy on which the U. S. already is launched. It was launched last week when Congress definitely placed an order for a two-ocean navy...