Word: closers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Everything was ready. Within the next 24 hours, Douglas MacArthur's men had crossed 90 miles of blue sea, wrenched a beachhead from the Japs on New Britain Island, pressed closer the western arm of the Allied pincers slowly closing on Rabaul, the enemy's Southwest Pacific stronghold...
...Dutch. In London, an official of the exiled Netherlands Government admitted thoughts of getting closer to the British. He was not ready to say that the realistic Dutch would go lock, stock and colonies into the Commonwealth; he did believe that his country would not again try to go it alone...
Troubling Trinity. Many people look to a union, or closer union, between the United States of America and Great Britain with her Commonwealth and Empire as the new path to be followed in the future. I myself am doubtful about that. I attach the greatest importance to Anglo-American collaboration for the future. But I do not think that as what I might call a political axis it will do. If you were to pit the British Commonwealth plus the United States against the rest of the world, it would be a very lopsided world. So we come back...
Hope in the West? The idea has repeatedly floated before my mind whether Great Britain should not Strengthen her European position by working closely together with those smaller democracies in Western Europe. Should there not be closer union between us ? Surely they must feel that their place is with this member of the trinity, their way of life is with Great Britain, their outlook.and their future is with Great Britain and the next worldwide British system...
...quite possible to bring these new groups closer to a neighboring Dominion and thereby interest the Dominion in the colonial group. In this way, instead of the Dominions being a show apart, so to say, having little or nothing to do with the Empire and taking very little interest in it, these regional Dominions will become sharers and partners in the Empire...