Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have to cross an ocean and leave an invulnerable country in order to save from disaster my defaulting debtors. Little by little I would doubtless have understood that if Europe and Africa were handed over to German militarism, Asia to Japanese militarism, America would inevitably become a battlefield and that, consequently, I would be saving my own home from destruction in defending London and in liberating Paris...
Most readable are the too-few pages Spender gives to translations of Nazi and proto-Nazi writings-including Novelist Ernst Jiinger's ecstatic conception of the modern battlefield...
Meanwhile he had acquired a further honorable record on the battlefield. As an officer in the Pennsylvania National Guard, he had fought with Pershing on the Mexican border. In World War I he had served in France, where he was wounded, gassed and decorated. In 1939, a major general, he commanded and trained Pennsylvania's famed 28th Division. But when war came again, Old Soldier Martin was retired. Heartbroken, he saw his 28th march off under another man's command...
Eight score and nine years rolled gently over the gently rolling battlefield of Princeton. By chance, it was little built upon. This week, while the sweet gums turned as scarlet as the British soldiers' coats, the long-peaceful soil was dedicated as a state park. Said Princeton's President Harold Willis Dodds: the University was "succumbing to nostalgia" in its bicentennial year. On the preserved battlefield, any lover of human liberties could look back with pride...
...moved from the Paris Peace Conference, its stale yammering, its endless skirmishes around the periphery of political war, into Germany. Byrnes's journey to Stuttgart was a move into the heartland. Germany, in the end, would be the great strategic battlefield. There the U.S. now stood, inviting Germans to stand on Western democracy's side...