Word: alterations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more than two months ago, Franco's troops in Spanish Morocco were enough of a menace to alter Allied military plans in North Africa, definitely hamper preparations for the Tunisian campaign. Now military relations with Spain are much improved and Allied forces have been freed for battle with the Germans. This consideration, more than the less immediate threat of Nazi invasion of Spain, weighed heavily in determining and "justifying" U.S. policy toward Franco...
...however systematic and successful such a system may be in the future, it can in no way alter the present composition of these reserves. The members of the Navy programs in particular will b the only sizable group of able-bodied men who can be liberally educated for the duration; yet they have been given this opportunity partly because they meet the minimum qualifications, and more especially because they happened to be in college at a time when enlistment was a prerogative of the individual and of his service. For some, V-1 was a way to dodge the draft...
...clarification of the recent alter- ations in Selective Service procedure, Washington announced recently that men who enter the armed services through the draft will definitely have an opportunity to indicate their preference for the branch of the services that they wish to enter
...about eggs in a single basket, took along Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall; COMINCH Admiral Ernest J. King; Lieut. General Henry H. ("Hap") Arnold, Chief of Army Air Forces; Lieut. General Brehon B. Somervell, Chief of the Army's Services of Supply; the President's alter ego Harry Hopkins. In Africa they were joined by Lieut. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, commander of the North African AEF; by Lieut. General Mark W. Clark, deputy commander; by Major General Carl Spaatz, the AEF's air commander; by Lieut. General Frank Maxwell Andrews, Commander in Chief of American...
Though no proposal to alter these circumstances had yet been made by her Axis neighbors, the Swiss last week were worried. German troops, completing the occupation of France, had closed Switzerland's last corridor to the outside world: the land was now an isolated little democratic anomaly deep inside totalitarian Europe. The intensification of German propaganda inside Switzerland led many Swiss to believe that Germany might like to fill the last lacuna in this Pan-Germanic ideal sooner rather than later. German propaganda was attacking Switzerland with a regularity that suggested a conscious campaign. The Swiss Nazi paper...