Word: defends
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Allies. There was strength in the U. S.'s final acceptance of the fact that whatever policy the U. S. followed meant risk. In Emporia, Kans., Editor William Allen White did what few observers of Midwest sentiment believed possible a fortnight ago: organized a Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies. Editor White's program: all possible legal aid short of armed force...
Speaking under the auspices of the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies, Conant advocated a program for this country that includes immediate rearmament; the sending of Army and Navy airplanes to England and France "without impairing our own security"; repeal of the laws which prevent United States citizens from volunteering to serve in foreign armies; control of exports with the purpose of "aiding the Allies by avoiding leaks to Germany"; and the cooperation of the U. S. Maritime Commission with the Allies "in every possible way under our present laws to expedite the sending of suplies and munitions...
Sponsored by the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies, the President's talk will be introduced by William Allen White, Chairman of the Committee, in a statement announcing the aims of the group...
...includes 1,100 which in fact are 50-calibre machine guns, useful mainly against low-flying strafers; 500 good but recently outmoded three-inchers ; 70 newer, longer-range go-mm. guns which the Army recently adopted as the best to be had. Wanted: 300 (enough, by British calculation, to defend 300 square miles, about the area of New York City...
...blackest night since the Spanish Armada lay off her coast in 1588, Prime Minister Winston Churchill not only spoke words of courage but matched them with action. In less than seven days Great Britain's tireless old firebrand changed the character ot Allied warmaking from one of defend & wait to one of dare & strike, although the German onslaught made daring & striking seem more necessity than inspiration. The Prime Minister's week: I-Tuesday he drafted England's No. 2 hustler, Lord Beaverbrook, to head a new Ministry of Aircraft Production, the Allies' greatest armament need...