Word: weapons
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...official acceptance speech next week, Republican Nominee Wendell Willkie kept up a running skirmish with his Presidential opponent. As Democratic bolters and independent voters came out for him, Candidate Willkie stood at the head of the receiving line, deftly turning each one's particular strength into a campaign weapon-sometimes by letting a new supporter speak for himself, sometimes by his own welcoming remarks. Last week Mr. Willkie received into the fold...
Dust hath closed Helen's eye-"It was quite irrelevant, really, a lament by Nashe in time of pestilence. . . . Words were the only net to catch a mood, the only sure weapon against oblivion...
Constant vigilance by Army and Navy is the only weapon against sabotage or the surprise raid. And if any enemy were not marvelously successful in his first attempt he might well fail for good. But operating from bases in the Caribbean he could go about his business much more methodically. The only effective defense is to keep him at a distance. Hence the second paradox of defense. The best way to defend the Canal is to defend seas 1,000 to 2,000 miles beyond the Canal...
...first train me well, and arm me well before ordering me to do battle. I wish to know beforehand where I must go, which gun I must pick up and in which direction I must shoot it. I wish to be trained in the offensive use of my weapon because surely in its offensive use will lie our best defense, but whether in offense or defense I want my efforts to be formidable and without proper training they aren't likely...
...Government, the law, though belated, was an effective weapon. Because it was not an embargo, merely a licensing arrangement, it gave the U. S. power to bring pressure on any one foreign government by refusing to give it needed war materials. Moreover, it gave the State Department an accurate check on what vital materials were being shipped to whom on what terms. U. S. moral embargoes now have a set of teeth...