Word: establish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Inter-American Neutrality Conference at Panama undertook to establish a "neutrality belt" extending an average of 300 miles from the North and South American coasts. On Dec. 23 Panama's President Augusto Samuel Boyd protested against violation of that zone in the battle between the Admiral Graf Spee and three British cruisers (TIME, Dec. 25). In last week's reply to both the original declaration and the protest, Great Britain flatly refused to admit that a neutrality belt existed...
...Great Britain surrendered the right to attack belligerent ships outside the three-mile limit, said the note, German warships and supply vessels might be provided with "a vast sanctuary from which they could emerge to attack Allied and neutral shipping." Said Great Britain: if the Americas wanted to establish such a peace belt they should be prepared to keep it peaceful by policing...
...coastal channels. By laying occasional mines since the original barrage, Nazi planes have obliged the sweepers to keep up their interminable precautionary labor. By attacking the sweepers with bombs and machine guns, and also attacking fishing boats (eyes for the fleet) and lightships, Nazi planes forced Britain to establish further naval and aerial coast patrols, may eventually compel Britain to arm even her fishing smacks. In all these ways the Nazi air fleet with little difficulty has put Great Britain to great trouble, expense and danger. A little German effort has forced Britain to much greater efforts just to keep...
...with laboratory work than with modernizing medical practice throughout backward sections of the U. S., the Fund spent the greater part of this money to build or enlarge 13 small country hospitals (mostly in the South), send visiting nurses to out-of-the-way farms, inspect village water supplies, establish small-town clinics for tuberculosis, venereal disease and child health. Rather than spread hospital money thinly throughout the U. S., the Fund prefers to "experiment" with "dramatic" model hospitals that make it possible "for key communities to take a long step forward all at once...
...last war, he said, with candor, that it was lost by the Versailles Treaty-"The Allied Powers threw away their chance, both by faults of omission and commission. . . . For that tragedy no nation and no statesman can establish a full alibi." But he denied that "this is a mere war between imperialisms," and foresaw some better peace, based not on spoils but on a federalized Europe...