Word: brutally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...puppet policeman. Germany was reported to have sent 25,000 more troops to Yugoslavia to deal with guerrillas. The death of General Ludwig von Schroeder, Military Governor of Belgrade, was announced in Berlin. (The British claimed his death was engineered by the Gestapo because he had protested against brutal treatment of the Serbs...
...collapse of France he cabled De Gaulle, stating his reasons in a letter to a staff officer: "When one has to choose between two duties, always take that one whose fulfillment is the most brutal and the most difficult. You can be quite sure that it is the right one." General Paul Louis Le Gentilhomme was sacked by Vichy for continuing the fight in Somaliland. Twelve-times-wounded Colonel Philibert Collet escaped from Syria to join De Gaulle last...
...easy thing to be a Free Frenchman in 1941. As General Petit wrote, it is the most brutal, the most difficult choice. Most of the leaders have been condemned to death in absentia. Smaller fry who are caught get 15 years at hard labor. Most of the Free French have families living in France...
...first among the leaders to recognize the threat of Fascism." Ernest Bevin does not like radical intellectuals. Neither, Author Strauss makes it clear, do radical intellectuals like Bevin. The fundamental difference between their doctrinaire attitude and that of "this fearsome-looking man, with the brusque voice and genius for brutal direct statement" is summed up in one incident...
...German News Bureau frowned as he made his note; the correspondent of the official Soviet agency frowned at the phrases that put Communism and Naziism in the same class. The U.S. newsmen checked off the phrases applied to Nazi Germany and its ways-"treacherous, dishonorable, deceitful, hostile, murderous, brutal, desperate." When the U.S. could officially use such terms as were now applied to the Nazis, the U.S. was certainly...