Word: explicit
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...country when the two major political parties were holding their national conventions last June and July. The representatives of the greater part of the American People in attendance at the conventions decided against resort to war at that time as an instrument of national policy. The Republican platform declared explicitly and unequivocally that "the Republican party is firmly opposed to involving this Nation in foreign war." The Democratic platform was equally explicit and unequivecal. "We will not participate in foreign wars," it declared, "and we will not send our army, naval or air forces to fight in foreign lands outside...
...volunteer committees, like the U. S. National Defense Advisory Commission, without explicit powers, a ruling head, do a real defense job? Canada tried the committee system at the war's outset, abandoned it for a coordinated, thoroughly empowered Department of Munitions and Supply under quiet, hard-working Minister Clarence D. Howe. Mr. Howe has spent much time in Washington, has much respect for the U. S. commissioners and what they have managed to do up to now. But Canada's dollar-a-year-men (Ottawa's swank Chateau Laurier swarms with them) unanimously declare that...
When invective is the ammunition, Italy is quick to fire. The press accused Britain of breaking explicit agreements not to use chemical warfare. The dropping of the phosphorus calling cards was the signal, said Corriere della Sera of Milan, "of a new method of offensive to which fit reply must be given." Benito Mussolini's Popolo d'ltalia echoed ominously with a new version of the Mosaic law: "Two eyes for one, two teeth for one, and so on until they cry, 'Enough...
...General Staff. Long-legged George Marshall knows he is running no one-man show. The Army doctrine of the late great Chief of Staff, J. Franklin Bell, that no man, unaided, can run a division, much less an army, long ago became as explicit as Army instructors could make...
...stand on American Neutrality this spring has not been an easy one to uphold. With every German victory in Europe the cry against un Americanism has grown louder. The President now has declared America's "non-belligerency." The pressure groups of 1917 have marshalled their strength, with his explicit approval, and the college presidents and prominent citizens have joined the newspapers in the campaign "of education...