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Before Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Washington, D.C., April 13. Mrs. Louise Leonard Wright, representing six women's organizations, today asked the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for flexible neutrality policy and said she supported the measure of Senator Elbert D. Thomas which would allow the President to discriminate in applying neutrality provisions in favor of victims of aggression, 4-13-39

Before Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Washington, D.C., April 13....

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Georgetown U. prexy asserts neutrality laws impractical. Urges Pan-American front. Washington, D.C., May 3. Dr. Edmund A Walsh, Vice President of the Georgetown University here and head of the Foreign Service School, told the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations today that no satisfactory neutrality law is possible and suggested a bloc of 21 American republics as a front against foreign aggression in this hemisphere. He said that neutrality today exists 'possibly in a few rare and detached souls'

Georgetown U. prexy asserts neutrality laws impractical. Urges Pan-Ame...

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Natives of the Netherlands East Indies have long been on the alert against the expected Japanese aggression. They have realized for ten years that the natural wealth of their islands would eventually mean a Japanese move for "unification," and air raid defenses such as these have long been ready for action. The crew is composed of members of the Royal Netherlands Indian Army. During action they wear steel helmets, rather than the bamboo hats shown here

Natives of the Netherlands East Indies have long been on the alert aga...

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After 1946 U.S. under no obligation to defend Philippines, Senate Committee told. Washington, D.C., Feb. 21. When independence is granted the Philippines in 1946 the United States will be absolved from defending the islands from foreign aggression, general Charles Burnett, Chief of the War Department Bureau of Insular Affairs, told the Senate Territories and Insular Affairs Committee today. As Philippine Vice President Sergio Osmena, right, and his two aides, Benito Razon and Camilo Osias listen intently General Burnett stated "the policy of the War Department is to get out of the Philippines after independence," 2-21-39

After 1946 U.S. under no obligation to defend Philippines, Senate Comm...

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Fort Story coast defense. Men and sixteen-inch gun at Fort Story, Virginia prepare to resist Axis aggression

Fort Story coast defense. Men and sixteen-inch gun at Fort Story, Virg...

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The cost of criminal aggression in the Philippine Islands to the people of Massachusetts ... Edward Atkinson. Boston, Oct. 26, 1903.

The cost of criminal aggression in the Philippine Islands to the peopl...

Title.; On verso: GEG. My.'3'/3. {Partial stamp}: Gift Gen. W. Birney, N, 2, '06. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Prin... More

European situation spoils map on Post Office department floor. Washington, D.C., April 12. The huge map on the floor of the Post Office Department here is all out of kilter these days due to the aggression in Europe. Many are the embarrassing questions being asked officials about when Mr. Farley is going to do something about Ethiopia, Austria and Czechoslovakia. The answer so far has been - nothing. Probably the Post Office is waiting to see what will happen next on the continent. Miss Edna Strain is inspecting the damage done by the ambitious dictators. 4-12-39

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Finnish Minister leaves State Department after conference with Secretary Hull. Washington, D.C., Nov. 30. Hjalmar Procope, Finnish Minister to the United States, leaving the office of Secretary of State Cardell Hull after a conference today. He told reporters that the Russian attack on his country 'is not a way but an unqualified aggression against a peace-loving and hard-working and religious people'

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Three of Uncle Sam's soldiers stand on the steps of an Army hospital. Lieutenant Eleanor Whalen of Chicago (left), Army transport nurse; Major Edward Rector of Marshal, South Carolina, veteran AVD flyer; and Lieutenant Frances Bullock of the Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. typify the spirit of America's soldiers and soldier-nurses standing strong in the fight against brutality and aggression

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