Word: respectability
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American colonies in 1823 to keep them-but not to get any more.) Moreover, said von Ribbentrop, if European nations could not intervene in American continental affairs, then American nations could not interfere in European affairs. By & large, Joachim von Ribbentrop's note made plain, Germany did not respect the Monroe Doctrine...
...among all the republics of this hemisphere." If a Monroe Doctrine operated in Asia, it would mean that in deciding the fate of Indo-China, all the Asiatic countries would confer. Said Steve Early, summing up the President's view: "The same procedure follows also with respect to Europe and to other parts of the world-that all European and Asiatic countries confer and make these decisions-not just one conquering power. Do you get the point...
...argument: European bases, such as Gibraltar, are just as essential to Atlantic security as are ships. As long as they remain in the hands of powers that respect the Monroe Doctrine, "no hostile ships, except for a few submarines and raiders, could get into the Atlantic at all." Second: "It is an illusion for people to believe that in the end the British Navy will pass easily to you. We in Britain shall certainly fight to the end to defend our country . . . [but] quite apart from the difficulties that would arise, if you were neutral, of handing over a fleet...
...enemy in French public life amounted to a kind of multiple schizophrenia. Taylor's constant fairness is nowhere more apparent than in his explanation of the seemingly sound strategic reasons which led the French General Staff to acquiesce in the Munich settlement. But he feels that in respect to the psychological war, at that time still imperfectly understood by the Allies, Munich was a climax which very nearly ruined France. That France was not immediately ruined Taylor ascribes partly to a psychological change in Daladier. He volunteers a new and, he believes, authentic, story to explain that change: during...
...Ridicule of authority. "I had seen bands of young Nazis in the streets of Vienna playing all sorts of schoolboy tricks on the police, not out of mischief but on orders and for the purpose of destroying public respect for them." Nazi agents with pocket radio transmitters just strong enough to be picked up by reconnaissance planes were used to furnish the jesting German radio with luncheon menus, etc. of important Allied personages...