Word: attacke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wanted his audience (a group of New England manufacturers) to realize, however, that there was no "easy and popular way to armed security." Air power was the primary attack weapon, but in the long run, said Infantryman Bradley, "a war between nations is reduced to one man defending his land while another tries to invade it. Whatever the devastation of his cities and the disorder in his existence, man will not be conquered until you fight him for his life...
...reply was courageous, and it kept Norway's feet on the ground. It told Russia placidly that Norway would investigate the conditions for joining the Atlantic pact, that she would not grant bases to foreign powers unless attacked "or subjected to threats of attack...
...Much Time to Lose. Next, Halvard Lange took on his critics in the Storting. At a special session, he told the isolationist nervous-Nellies that Norway alone "is not and cannot be militarily strong enough" either to discourage or fight off an attack by a great power. Whatever Norway decided, she would decide herself; he would bring back to the Storting the detailed conditions for joining the pact...
...Lange was ready to fly to the U.S. to get the facts. Just before his plane took off, he got another stern note from the U.S.S.R. Bulldozed Russia: Norway had "failed to give a clear reply" about foreign bases; Norway was guilty of a "suggestion that a threat of attack could emanate from the Soviet Union"; Norway should, "to eliminate any doubt," sign a non-aggression pact with Russia...
March 2 was originally scheduled as opening night until Woolley notified HDC officials that he had gone to Florida to recuperate from an attack of laryngitis. The Club had already begun negotiations with the College and Cambridge school officials when it was learned that Woolley would be available for the April date...