Word: assists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have done for a time at Dunkirk, they could put the invaders in an extremely uncomfortable position. If the Germans could command it they could lend their landing parties the equivalent of artillery support before artillery was actually landed. They could also land parachute troops and others to assist in the penetrations necessary to protect beachheads. Even if the original landing operations were not themselves successful, the British Fleet might so expose itself that it would lose too many vessels to be able to continue the defense of Britain. These were the grim possibilities which the British had to face...
...until a menace to our own interests compelled us to intervene. We long ago realized that the best and cheapest way of assuring our own security was to encourage other nations to fight for their own security, and when there was doubt about their ability to do so to assist them with finance and, if necessary, with arms." The U. S. does not aspire to a position of world responsibility and power; its desire is still for isolation without responsibility...
...still be available, through Canada or otherwise, as part of your own defensive system. I hope you are not building on that expectation. . . . Only if we are beaten down and the greater part of the fleet has been sunk in action will the remains of it leave home to assist in the defense of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and other distant parts of the Commonwealth. ... It is my view that we are standing today not in the outer trenches of our old joint naval defense system but in the last trenches...
...District Attorney Buron Rogers Fitts of Los Angeles summoned law enforcement officers from all over Southern California, declared immediate war on the fifth column, invited the public to assist. Next day letters and telephone calls poured...
...same family as Admiral Stark and Governor Lloyd C. Stark of Missouri. America must assist France immediately. Request full publicity and aid to homeless and desolate here as result of German savagery...