Word: affectioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germans hang on? Explained General Alexander: 1) for prestige -Italy, a former Ally, is the major territory outside Germany that is still held; 2) for morale-further retreat would affect the home front; 3) for supply-the industries of north Italy are still useful...
Britain's hardship was organized, disciplined. For themselves, Britons saw no prospect of a violent swing in any direction. But Britons themselves knew that what happened in continental Europe would one day affect Britain. Said the News Chronicle's editor Gerald Barry: This has become the common man's war. Man is trying to find the equation between individual liberty and economic order. Communal control . . . without too great a sacrifice of personal freedom seems to be the common denominator of all resistance movements...
...Loyal Opposition. This kind of nobility of purpose, overriding possible ridicule and probable defeat, finally began to affect the electorate: Willkie's stock rose steadily and swiftly; his final rush to victory was nipped off only when Franklin Roosevelt made a smashing series of attacks on the poor Republican Congressional record, leading off with the "Martin, Barton & Fish" speech. The margin of Willkie's defeat was much narrower than is even now generally realized...
...Germans were delighted. They began to posture as a friend of Poland. Polish slave laborers in Germany were permitted to remove the big P (for Pole) from their coats. Few Poles, familiar with the horrors of German friendship, would be deceived by the tactic. Nor could it greatly affect the military situation in Poland. But responsibility for the fact that at this late day in the war the Germans could still make use of such a tactic lay squarely with Moscow-and, to a lesser extent, with the U.S. and Britain...
Italy had all the chaos necessary to all-out anarchy. It did not have anarchy-yet, but Italians would not stay mute and muddled forever. At some point they would have to make up their minds in which direction they wanted to go. And the way they went would affect all Europe...