Word: send
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...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 the Americas, except in case of attack." The presidential candidates in the ensuing campaign stood squarely upon their platforms, and the successful candidate repeatedly pledged himself to maintain the policy to which he was committed by the convention...
WASHINGTON--The Administration is considering proposals to send food and medical supplies into France and Spain but will withhold definite action until all aspects of the problem have been examined by William D. Leahy, new American Ambassador to Vichy, reliable quarters reported tonight...
Certain papers stated that the ruinous slides had been caused by cloudbursts. But the Stockholm Dagens Nyheter suggested that the wet looseness of the mountain earth had made it easy to send it tumbling with small dynamite charges, that the slides had been the work of a network of Norwegian saboteurs bent on breaking military supply lines to coastal air bases used in the bombing of Britain. The suggestion gained credence from the fact that Nazi armored trucks were rushed to the landslide districts, many arrests were made, a state of siege declared. Nazi police and soldiers stopped and searched...
Jean Chiappe's pilot had time to send this message over his radio: "We are being machine-gunned. Plane on fire. SOS." Three days later Vichy announced that the body of Anglophobe Jean Chiappe was lost in the sea that washes his native island...
...extend the Monroe Doctrine to Ireland and send convoyed ships that far? I think the British can take care of them the rest of the way. If we showed that we were in this war by such a step, not only the Irish but everyone else would take notice. Turkey's attitude would be changed. Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, and Spain would remain stiffened in opposition to Hitler...