Word: canada
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...very nature of warfare, was greeted with wide disapproval. Yet hardly had his critics' chorus died down when Mr. Hoover's one overnight convert, Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, stuck out his tanned neck to echo the same idea. But Lindbergh went further than the Great Engineer. Denouncing Canada's entry into World War II, he asserted that "sooner or later" the U. S. must "demand the freedom" of all European possessions in the Western Hemisphere as a defensive tactic...
Lindbergh, neither a Great Humanitarian nor an ex-President, but merely an ex-Hero, was met with a critical blast that made the blatts at Hoover sound like cheers. The fury of Canada and England reflected the Senate cloakroom bitterness; finally Nevada's Key Pittman exploded: "Colonel Lindbergh's statement . . . encourages the ideology of the totalitarian governments and is subject to the construction that he approves of their brutal conquest of democratic countries through war. . . ." Messrs. Hoover & Lindbergh retired to their corner, without seconds...
About ten years ago the U. S. and Britain divided the Atlantic's weather reporting between them; storms east of 35° longitude (even with the eastern edge of Brazil) were hunted by Britain; those west of 35° by the U. S. and Canada. But since the opening of World War II, the great British weather-broadcasting station at Rugby has been silent, lest it give aid to enemy bombers, and U. S. weathermen have been left completely in the dark about weather forecasts east...
...declared this an "unprovoked challenge." Most of Quebec's 3,500,000 French-Canadians bitterly opposed conscription in World War I, but the Government, having promised that there would be no conscription this time, thought it had a good chance of ousting the Isolationist Duplessis Government, of bringing Canada greater unity than ever before...
...from much-used shipping channels and are now forced to operate out in the open sea where the 'catch' is bound to be a much smaller one." The British pointed with pride to their convoy system, revealed that a flotilla of 15 freighters had arrived safely from Canada bringing 500,000 bushels of wheat. Pointing with pride also to Britain's blockade of Germany, Winston Churchill gleefully declared that Britain had seized 150,000 more tons of contraband than she had lost by torpedoing, was thus ahead of the game...