Word: suggest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mussolini interrupts several times to suggest that he ask for Tunisia and Corsica but Hitler suggests that he be content for the moment with demanding "Djibouti and some advantages in the Suez Canal...
...President went on to suggest, specifically, revision of the neutrality laws. he might also have cited the loan of $25,000,000 to China, which is stimulating Britain and France to grant similar loans; he might have cited the shipment of 600,000 barrels of American wheat to Spain" on the basis of need"--where need is principally Loyalist--and which has enabled that army to avoid surrender this winter. Peaceful methods such as these keep military force in the background, make it, literally and theoretically, a last resort...
Anyone daring to suggest that the German army, perhaps the best disciplined in the world at that time, did not spend all its time committing atrocities was of course "pro-German." Such courageous men as Congressman Charles A. Lindbergh, who tried to remain clear-sighted in the face of hysteria, who protested America's entry into the War, were, naturally, traitors-though history has proved them right and proved the rest of us a gullible group of limp-wits, victims of the most obvious propaganda...
...hold no brief for A. Hitler & Co., any more than I do for the mob lynchings and mob burnings of our chivalrous South, but I would like to suggest, before such a suggestion would land me in a concentration camp as a "pro-Nazi," that TIME keep its head until such time as a more pronounced government attitude makes propaganda safer than truth...
Meaning: Executive departments will only suggest, instead of actually write, the bills they want, leaving the literary composition to drafting committees of the Congress...