Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Adolf Hitler came to power, he used the professional High Command, and its members used him. They had the same aim-war-and the story of their mutual enmity was largely a myth...
Under the Nazis he had lived in unpolitical retirement ("I spoke critically of the Nazis in private but I did not speak publicly"). Of his new job Dr. Fuchs said: "My greatest aim is to inculcate a new Christian spirit in our youth, a Christian spirit in which both Catholic and Protestant churches must collaborate...
...comparable light had been shed on their administrative plans by either the Russians or the British. There were some signs that London thought the U.S. was attempting too much. Winston Churchill strengthened this impression last week when he told the House of Commons : "It is our aim that the Germans should administer their country in obedience to Allied directions; we have no intention of undertaking the burden of administering Germany ourselves." Popular nominees for Eisenhower's British opposite number: Field Marshal Montgomery, with whom Churchill conferred last week, and Field Marshal Alexander, who was amply occupied in Yugoslavia...
...Army is destined for battle, battle is her aim...
...hower for the U.S., and Russian, British and French members yet to be named would clear all common questions, send common directives to the four sub-govern ments. The first purpose of this technically coordinated quartering was to keep Germany impotent. Wisely applied by powers solely devoted to that aim, it might achieve the purpose. But defeated Germany was something more than a nation to be held down: it was also a focal area in the never-ending contest for power in Europe, and the world...