war-basis

Updated: June 28, 2025

This work had been so successful as to necessitate a force of four offices and twenty stenographers. Bok now placed this Washington office on a war-basis, bringing it into close relation with every department of the government that would be connected with the war activities.

Edward William Bok - The Americanization of Edward Bok : the autobiography of a Dutch boy fifty years after

This work had been so successful as to necessitate a force of four offices and twenty stenographers. Bok now placed this Washington office on a war-basis, bringing it into close relation with every department of the government that would be connected with the war activities.

Edward William Bok - A Dutch Boy Fifty Years After

What changes in American history might have followed! The desire of Britain for the Louisiana country, the claim of Spain to the Mississippi below the Ohio, silenced but not abandoned after 1783, the necessity for neutrality as a basis for the Monroe Doctrine, and the development of America free from the burden of a war-basis defence, must be considered in this connection.

Edwin Erle Sparks - The United States of America, Part 1