Word: britons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once having established himself on the St. Lawrence, an invader might pattern his advance by land on the thrust of gouty General Burgoyne down the Hudson in the Revolution. Mercilessly harried on his flanks as he moved south, luxury-loving Briton Burgoyne finally dug in near Saratoga, put his women in a safe place and tried to knock Gates's Army out of his way. Soundly defeated in one of the world's decisive battles (largely through the tactical resource of Gates's brilliant subordinate, Benedict Arnold) he had to hand over his sword. Thus ended...
Fortnight ago the British Legation in Montevideo issued an unusual decree: no British sailor, naval or mercantile, was to leave his ship without a local Briton as escort. Just as amazing was the official reason: Uruguayan maidens had become so immodestly pro-Allied that the honest British tars were embarrassed;* wherever they went they were greeted with effusive hugs and left covered with smears of sticky lip rouge. As the practice grew fashionable, local belles vied for the honor of kissing the most sailors, depositing the most makeup...
Every day's delay thus gained, every obstacle placed before it, gave added time for Britain's preparation of home defense against invasion. For no Briton doubted that only by coming and getting them could Germany conquer the British. And by last week the last great democracy of Europe was truly an "island fortress" ringed by air and naval power, manned by 1,500,000 British soldiers, two Canadian divisions, several battalions of Australians and New Zealanders, 30,000 Polish, French and Czech troops. Last week with the calling of 34-year-olds, 4,100,000 Britons were...
...upon Shanghai newsmen in a downpour of unexpected violence. First warning came like a clap of thunder in the form of an executive decree, issued by Wang Ching-wei's Japanese-puppet Government at Nanking, ordering the arrest and deportation from China of six U. S. newsmen, one Briton for "endeavoring to undermine the Chinese [i.e., Wang] Government ... by distributing rumors and improper statements endangering the Republic...
...Last fortnight the 3,000,000th Briton was called up for home defense. Last week, with the calling up of 32-year-olds, the number eligible rose to 3,300,000. But trainees were put into khaki only at the rate...