Word: aggressors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Italy at first pretended unconcern. Then the press began to bridle, pointing out: 1) that Britain was trying to strangle Italian trade, but could not do so because Italy could carry her commerce in her own bottoms; 2) that Britain was trying to make Italy appear to be an aggressor in the Mediterranean. Air Marshal Italo Balbo's newspaper, Corriere Padano, tried to reverse the process. "The Allies have an urgent need to regain prestige they have lost," said Corriere Padano. "Can the Mediterranean supply that need?" Corriere Padano even went so far as to declare that Italy...
...Quarantine aggressor nations...
...neutral lives were endangered. And last week the Allies' chief spokesman to neutrals, Winston Churchill, phrased Britain's new policy toward Norway and others thus artfully: "When we are asked to take as a matter of course interpretations of neutrality which give all the advantage to the aggressor and inflict all the disadvantages upon the defenders of freedom, I recall a saying of the late Lord Balfour: 'This is a singularly ill-contrived world, but not so ill-contrived as that...
Answer: "France's attitude was not different from that of other powers, including England and America. . . . Anyway, France and England and they only have taken up arms against the aggressor in 1939. If they are to blame for not doing it sooner, what about the other spectators...
Pointing out that the United States is helping Finland materially against a ruthless aggressor, Major Carlson saw no reason why this country could not help china by refusing to help Japan...