Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fred Vinson's 8,000-word report to President Truman was titled: "The War-Phase Two." Said Vinson: "The paramount command is: win the war! Victory over Japan comes ahead of every other consideration.'' Then he drew a picture of what U.S. civilians may expect as America's full weight is thrown to the west...
...Navy got its youngest rear admiral last week and the Navy high command got something it badly needed: a press chief who understands and likes...
Navy policy has always been to give the public-relations assignment to line officers. Most of the professionals hated the job, and few understood it. The high command sat on almost everything but the most routine naval news, and the Navy's chief public-relations officer became little more than a chief clerk...
...Alibi. The bankrupt Reich's receivers did their utmost to absolve the German people and the German military command of responsibility for the war and the defeat. Blame went impartially to: 1) the Nazi party, no longer to be confused with the German nation; 2) an "unfortunate" shortage of equipment. This inferiority, the propaganda suggested, was no reflection on the power and genius of German arms and could be corrected next time...
Broadcasting "the last High Command communique of this war," the voice of Flensburg first saluted the German troops on the Vistula who had "gallantly" fought the Red Army "to the very last." To their commander went the last German decoration of World War II: diamonds for the oak leaves (with swords) on his Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. The voice continued...