United States declares war

All his renewed energy went into the war effort. After the United States declared war in December 1941, Caltech s researchers turned from the structure of the universe to the design of munitions and defense materials. Pauline s laboratories became hives of research... 

AMERICAN UNIVERSITY. The United States declared war on Germany on 6 April 1917. Later that month, the Board of Trustees... 

Mr. Minskoff In March 1944, the President of the United States made a public declaration stating that, "In one of the blackest crimes of history, begun by the Nazis in the days of peace, and multiplied in time of war, the wholesale and systematic murder of Jews goes on unabated.". . . Mr. Mann, the text of that statement was repeated... 

Economics and politics also intersected in Whitehall s perception in 1956 of the Soviet Union as a threat to Britain s share of international trade. In May of that year, when arguing that Britain could not afford a policy of perfection in defence, Eden noted that there was evidence that the Russians intended to concentrate on industrial exports. In order to be able to meet this competition, part of the burden placed on British industry by defence orders must be reduced, so as to release resources for civil production. In present circumstances, he said, economic failure was a more serious risk than global war, and defence plans had to be adjusted to this revised political assessment. He added that a recent report from the ambassador in Washington showed that President Eisenhower was thinking along the same lines.The Russians made no secret of their intentions. In November 1957 Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet leader, declared in a visit to the United States in the peaceful field of trade we declare a war. The threat to the United States is not in the intercontinental ballistic missile but in the field of peaceful production. We are relentless in this and will prove the superiority of our system. ... 

On January 6 of the next year, Britain declared its opium war against the United States. Americans knew it as Prohibition. 

In our own day—a half millennium after the bull of Innocent VIII, and 150 years after the German declaration of war on insanity—we are exhorted to combat mental illness by no less a personage than a President of the United States of America. On February 5, 1963, President Kennedy declared ... 

In 1835, Alexis de Tocquiville attributed the extraordinary political and personal freedom of the people in the United States to their being intensely religious. President Franklin Rosevelt, in a famous pre-World War II speech, declared that religion was one of four essential freedoms, the others being (1) freedom from fear (2) freedom of expression and (3) freedom from want. 

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