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Woodrow Wilson set up a National War Labor Board to serve much the same purpose. It had no more authority than the present board. President Wilson backed it up with a threat to take over recalcitrant companies, withdraw draft exemptions from stubborn workers. In two instances the U. S. Government actually took over corporations (the telegraph companies, Smith & Wesson). On one occasion Wilson sent the organized machinists of Bridgeport scuttling back to their jobs with Wilsonian words that Mr. Roosevelt may have pondered: "I desire that you return to work. ... If you refuse, each of you will be barred from...
...America was enthusiastic over passage of the bill. Cuba and Costa Rica sent congratulations to the U. S. Congress. In Panama and Nicaragua newspapers praised the Act. In Montevideo El Dia called it a triumph for Britain's cause. In Chile satisfaction was mixed with concern over the threat to Chile's long coast line, if the U. S. should go to war with Japan. Argentine newspapers were enthusiastic, but most of them forgot their enthusiasm when they learned that in Washington the House Appropriations Committee had refused to buy Argentine corned beef for the Navy. Only opposition...
...burden of his speech was urgent: "Never before in the history of our sea power have we had such need of many more ships and great numbers of men." Britain was at last wide awake to the immediate threat of the counter-blockade, had at last realized that this time the sea offensive was incomparably more dangerous than...
...stuff that myths are made of was being spun out in Greece last week. The Greeks spoke and acted like a race of giants 20 feet tall, hurlers of thunderbolts, crushers of men. Far from being daunted by the noisy threat which was giving Germany victory after bloodless victory in the Balkans, the Government declared: "Greece has shown in the most definite way that any idea of armistice would find her disdainfully hostile." The heart was still fiercely hot in Greece's Army; it launched a violent attack along the entire central section of the Albanian Front, and within...
...Eastern kingdoms: Father Husein in Hejaz (whence his son AH was chased by that tough man Ibn Saud), Faisal in Syria (whence he was chased by the French), Abdullah in Trans-Jordan, which was set up by the British as a link between Egypt and Iraq and a potential threat to French-mandated Syria. Through the process of raiding his treasury and letting the British bail him out, Ab dullah presently found himself completely under the thumb of Great Britain. Last week the British used Abdullah and his kingdom for the purpose they had fore seen long...