Word: attacke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Acheson insisted that the bill contained "the minimum amount required" to equip "the very modest forces" which Europe had on hand. The U.S. was not arming Europe to resist an all-out attack: "What is required is rather sufficient strength to make it impossible for an aggressor to achieve a quick and easy victory...
Tanaka: "I think Admiral Togo† is the greatest man in Japanese history. Togo was an honest nationalist, which is not the same thing as a militarist. I also respect Admiral Yamamoto [who planned and carried out the attack on Pearl Harbor], not as a militarist but as an excellent human being. I had a copy of his biography, but when we surrendered I burned...
Throughout the night the poorly organized rebels, supported by tanks and field guns, mounted attack after attack on the palace, the police station and the army airport. The town's best residential sections, Tivoli and Santa Clara, were squeezed in a triangle formed by the military academy on the north, the airbase on the south and Fort Guardia de Honor on the east. Tanks clattered through as street fighters kept up a running battle from doorway to doorway, the military bases exchanged artillery fire and government planes zoomed down to bomb tanks and strafe street fighters. The quaking government...
...Says Father McCarthy of his new job: "The Catholic Church is not confining itself to counterpunching any more . . . The church is on the attack . . . The church today is able to stand before the world and say: 'This is our position. This is what we hold. We don't want it watered down. This is what it is and nothing else.' . . . We've got the dynamite and we don't want that watered down, either. Explode it. It's an explosive...
Until the Russian attack of 1939 put a moratorium on her World War I loan from the U.S., Finland had never missed a remittance day. She had paid the U.S. Government more than $8,000,000 (chiefly in interest) on the original $8,281,926.17 relief loan. After World War II she began paying again, still has $13 million to go. "These remarkable people," declared New Jersey's Senator H. Alexander Smith last winter, "appear determined in a world of forgotten principles to make their country an example of integrity...