Word: attacke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these is Ana. Her sway extends beyond Rumania's 92,000 square miles and its 16.5 million people. She is the leading Communist in the band of states running from the Baltic to the Adriatic, where over 100 million people serve as Russia's shield against attack and Russia's springboard for aggression. Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Albania are the satellites of a power which intends to make the world its satellite...
...remember that he had been a leading advocate of the Hitler-Stalin pact, that he had sparked the 1939-40 war against Finland, directed the defense of Leningrad against the German invasion, conducted the ideological purge of writers, artists, musicians, philosophers and scientists, founded the Cominform, and led the attack on Tito. Muscovites, however, were more likely to remember him for his funeral. It was the most pompous display the city had seen since Lenin was laid away...
...dismissal of two non-interventionist colleagues, though he himself was in favor of U.S. entry into World War I. The New York Times congratulated the university on its "deliverance" from such a radical. He was forever popping up-at congressional hearings, protest meetings, or with a new book-to attack Hearst, or Wall Street, the "intellectual bankruptcy of conservatism," or the internationalists and their "giddy minds." No one ever quite knew what he would say next. "Have you read Charles Beard's last book?" someone once asked Nicholas Murray Butler. Huffed Columbia's president: "I hope...
Surprising Departure. "The surprise attack on Pearl Harbor," says Captain Morison, "far from being a 'strategic necessity' as the Japanese claimed even after the war, was a strategic imbecility." Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto was a brilliant tactician, but when he cooked up Pearl Harbor he departed from the sound basic plan of Japanese strategy. This was to complete the conquest of the Western Pacific and wait there for the U.S. fleet, cutting it down by island attacks and then overwhelming it in Philippine waters. In Morison's opinion, one good reason for Admiral Kimmel's failure...
...Dall, now an assistant radio producer, came down with polio, an affliction not unfamiliar to his mother, Anna Roosevelt Boettiger. He was still hopeful that he would be able to act as secretary to his grandmother when the U.N. meets in Paris later this month. His doctors described the attack as definitely "a mild case...