Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With Germany determined to settle the simmering Balkans, the Russian angle last week seemed to be to get them to boil over. Into circulation went rumors of a Russian-proposed three-nation block of Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Rumania. Also rumored was a Russian note suggesting the desirability of a "popular Government" in Rumania. Fortnight ago the Moscow radio stopped criticizing Rumania, began defending her title to Transylvania. And last week Soviet agents began distributing propaganda tracts, appealing to all Balkan workers to follow the example of the proletarians in the three Baltic States and "liberate themselves" by joining...
...Panama Canal can be attacked in three general ways: 1) enemy saboteurs might block its locks or destroy its gates by blowing up a shipful of explosives on an apparently peaceful transit of the Ditch; 2) bombers launched from an enemy carrier at sea might succeed in a surprise raid in smashing lock machinery or breaching the great dam of Gatun Lake, thereby draining the Canal of water; 3) having gained a foothold in the Caribbean area, an enemy might go about systematic destruction of the Canal with large-scale attacks...
...delegation made it plain that the U.S. viewed the biggest Nazi threat in South America as economic. No U.S. military or naval experts were going. With Secretary Hull went Adolf Berle, Assistant Secretary of State, creator of the cartel plan by which the U. S. would block Nazi pressures on South America...
...subway station in downtown Brooklyn, stationed himself at the doors of a grimy brick building at No. 131 Livingston St. Soon others, some in spruce business suits, some in greasy overalls, some old, some young, lined up behind him. Through the night they waited. The line lengthened down the block, curled around its four sides. As day broke and the line sweated in the July sun, functionaries of the New York City Board of Education arrived, hurried inside the building to begin interviewing applicants for the U. S. industrial defense army...
Near the flagstaff a great granite block stood some three feet above the ground. Hitler marched to it, followed by the others. One after another the seven men read the inscription on the stone. It said in French (which Hitler is not very good at): Here on the Eleventh of November, Succumbed the Criminal Pride of the German Empire, Vanquished by the Free Peoples Which it Tried to Enslave. None of the Germans spoke, or even changed his expression, but next day that stone was ordered removed...