Word: begun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...might give them time to deal with the Russians, time to perfect their continental defenses, time for their Pacific ally to draw off American strength. But the delay and loss meant a great deal to the Allies. Upon this battle turned the whole timing of the difficult, not-yet-begun European campaign, and therefore of the Pacific campaign, which must wait until Hitler is beaten. The Hamburger Fremdenblatt advised the Germans: ". . . Victory demands the utmost perseverance and requires that we should hold out 'five minutes longer...
Brazil has begun to feel that she is in the war but not of it. When Aviation Minister Joaquim Pedro Salgado Jr. announced last week that the Brazilian Air Force had sunk its seventh U-boat, he symbolized Brazil's feeling. He said, by way of explanation for not waiting the customary 30 days to announce the sinking: "It is a great satisfaction to get part of our revenge at the scene of the brutal attacks which provoked a bitter hatred of the Axis throughout Brazil...
Brazil's desire for action poses a real problem to Brazil's allies, who lack the shipping to satisfy her yearning. But Brazilians have begun to feel strongly, and the U.S. cannot well ignore such expressions of passion as General Rabello's: "There must be no half measure: either defeat and the claws of the beast on our shoulders or victory and the unconditional surrender agreed upon in Casablanca and the possibility of reconstructing a just world for free...
...continental power. At the same time the stage was cleared for a new issue: Who was going to run this continental power-the free-labor North and West, or the slave-labor South? "At some time between August and December, 1846," says Historian DeVoto, "the Civil War had begun...
Official public information men, in the past decade, have begun to have kinds of influence and even of authority that used to belong to statesmen alone. Under tyranny they may indeed redouble the frauds of tyranny, as Goebbels did in Germany. But under democracy they may with courage divulge the truths of democracy. A journalist nurtured in an honest tradition has been the wartime Prime Minister of Britain. And in a long view of the matter, it was a victory in itself for American propaganda that Elmer Davis-who patently dislikes propaganda-was made head of the U.S. Office...