Word: sweeten
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...more than at any time since he had been in the White House, Roosevelt could afford to tell the country the truth, however unpalatable. There was no one he had to please for political reasons, no one to soothe or baby or sweeten up. He came into office this time committed to no man, indebted to no group, bound by no strings. He was committed only to the national good and particularly to national defense, and to what the national defense implied...
Great Britain and France last week lent Turkey $174,000,000 (on top of $100,000,000 already lent by Great Britain). This loan for which no economic basis exists was to sweeten the defensive alliance which Nazi Ambassador Franz von Papen failed to prevent last autumn, and $100,000,000 of it is to be spent exclusively on Turkey's Army. That Army does not by the terms of the Allied treaty with Turkey have to attack Russia, but it stands ready to defend its country against Russian invasion...
...lead. Yugoslavia now furnishes Germany with copper (from British-French-owned mines), Turkey might furnish chromium. The Allies will buy these countries' exports of these metals, also taking Yugoslavia's entire export prune crop, Turkey's entire surplus of figs, grapes and some tobacco, to sweeten the deals...