Word: programming
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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declare war on Germany forthwith. "In the German view the American defense program means that the U. S. has already joined with Great Britain and France in opposing the Nazi drive for world dominion-in the American view, Nazi Germany is the mortal enemy of our ideals, our institutions and our way of life. What we have, what we are and what we hope to be can now be most effectively defended on the line in France held by General Weygand. The frontier of our national interest is now on the Somme. Therefore all disposable air, naval, military and material...
should immediately give official recognition to the fact and to the logic of the situation-by declaring that a state of war exists between this country and Germany. Only in this constitutional manner can the energies be massed which are indispensable to the successful prosecution of a program of defense." Signers were not fire-eaters: there was Columnist Frank Kent, Editor George Fort Milton, St. John's College's President Stringfellow Barr. What seemed like the biggest reversal was Walter Millis'. But Mr. Millis, author of the best-selling Road to War that traced the steps...
Wrangling during its Harrisburg convention on the objectives of national defense, and getting nowhere, 1,100 Pennsylvania clubwomen heard Clarence Streit urge the program of Federal Union. Argued Clarence Streit: The fate of democracy depends on the defeat of Hitler. He cannot probably be defeated without U. S. aid. Military preparedness is not enough; the only force the U. S. can quickly bring to the conflict is a moral and political power. Organizing the democracies in a federal union, with a guarantee that the German people would be admitted to this union when they retired to their frontiers and restored...
Author Streit back for an ovation, the clubwomen voted, 1,092-10-8, to urge the program of a world-wide federal union as the basic objective of U. S. efforts...
...Davis said he must have. A Red Cross mercy ship, the 6,198-ton freighter McKeesport, loaded supplies, got ready to sail from New York City. Already hard-pressed, the American Friends Service Committee, which began operating in France 16 months ago caring for Spanish refugees, expanded its program, appealed for more funds. The American Volunteer Ambulance Corps, which already has no ambulances in Europe, recruited college men as drivers, sent off a score this week...