Word: aftermath
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Panic. The aftermath of Hamburg was a great fear throughout the Reich. Refugees streamed from the stricken city, spread tales of horror. German propagandists had once spoken gloatingly of the destruction which their Luftwaffe visited on British cities; they could find no words now to quell the rising terror of their people under the Allied bombs. The Völkischer Beobachter, official organ of the Nazi Party, wrote: "The whole Reich and the largest cities are within reach of enemy planes. Nobody underestimates the imminence of danger." Reich Marshal Hermann Göring, who once said: "If a single bomb...
...Line? As the aftermath of North African expediency, the U.S. foreign policy toward France was now out in the open, a policy charted in the White House. And though on the surface it appeared to favor General Giraud over General de Gaulle actually it favored neither of them...
...voters' verdict showed that Eire still did not consider World War II or its aftermath her concern. Some observers wondered whether it was not the potato shortage, more than any other factor, that had cost Dev his majority...
Says Laski, there is a single, inevitable choice: a peaceful revolution by consent, or a repetition at home of the bloody Russian revolution, with its aftermath of suffering and repression. Violence there will be, but it is equally likely to come from the ruling classes of Britain and the U.S. as from leftist revolutionaries...
...LIEUTENANTS, Vol. II - Douglas Soufhall Freeman - Scribner ($5). Volume I of Author Freeman's massive work of the Confederate warriors (Lee's Lieutenants, TIME, Oct. 26), closed with the aftermath of the Seven Days' battles. Volume II takes the reader from Cedar Mountain to Chancellorsville and the death of Stonewall Jackson. Other famous "lieutenants" included are James Longstreet, Jeb Stuart, Jubal Early, A. P. Hill R. S. Ewell, D. H. Hill, J. B. Hood, R. H. Anderson, W. N. Pendleton. Detailed, scholarly examination of every inch of the battlefields is coupled with dramatic descriptions...