Word: using
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...linked hemispheric defense to freedom of the seas: "We include the right to the peaceful use of the Atlantic Ocean and of the Pacific Ocean." He denied that "the course the Americas are following is slowly drawing one or all of us into war." Said he: "This country wants no war with any nation. This hemisphere wants no war with any nation." He salved South American pride with the statement that newly acquired U. S. naval bases were open to other republics of the Western Hemisphere for cooperative use. And he came to a defiant climax...
...capitalism. Their candidate for President: persistent, patient Norman Mattoon Thomas, who, seeing the U. S. drifting into "imperialism abroad and fascism at home," declared: "The only opportunity for escape is a change of the people towards a cooperative commonwealth with machinery harnessed to overcome poverty, and not for the use of militarism." For Vice President: Maynard C. Krueger, University of Chicago economist...
...Japanese attack on the Indies. This would move the scene of action some distance from Japanese as well as from U. S. bases. Such an attack would give the U. S. Britain and The Netherlands as allies, and provide the U. S. with the use of other bases-particularly the first-class British base at Singapore, secondarily the Dutch bases at Surabaya and Amboina, and the Australian base at Port Darwin...
...view. He was answered: two months. The 30-day camping period, a political compromise, was an expression of the fact that Canada, at war for over a year, was still unwilling to face conscription. No one dreamed that the 30-day trainees would be of any earthly military use...
...help of two doctors and two nurses. In the winter he had to travel by dog team over wastes of "slob" ice and huge sheets of smooth "whelping ice." Once he drifted out to sea on a pan of ice, had to kill three of his dogs and use their skins for blankets, their leg bones as a staff for a makeshift flag...