Word: counters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first step must be the defeat of the aggressors; for "It takes many to make peace, but one alone may make war; and he may be stopped only by counter-war or force in some equivalent form." Nor should the United States hold aloof, for "isolation is not a national policy; it is a declaration of bankruptcy, leading to national suicide. Other nations have hoped that they would escape the doom of war by their good behavior, but the cemeteries are full of their crumbling relies...
...steamed out of Norfolk under sealed orders. It carried special equipment for the President's use. Off Culebra Island, between the Virgins and Puerto Rico, naval maneuvers were scheduled for early December-and there the Tuscaloosa had been originally assigned. In Washington, in a week of rumors and counter-rumors, President Roosevelt told his press conference that he was leaving for a long defense inspection trip, and though it might take him more than twelve hours from Washington by rail, he would fly back if an emergency called him to the White House. Early this week...
Outside the capital, civil war came next. At Craiova and Turnu-Severin, Army and Iron Guard battalions battled in the streets in open warfare. At Brasov the Iron Guard captured the telephone exchange and post office, was routed in bloody counter-attacks by the Army. From Bulgaria came word of artillery fire in the Rumanian Danube port of Giurgiu...
Meantime, Britain's November merchant-shipping losses to the Germans, 60,000 tons a week, were up 40,000 a week since June. Gravely the question was raised as to whether help in large quantity from anywhere could reach Britain in the face of the ever-stiffening counter-blockade. And this raised the graver question of how tenable were the home islands themselves, not only the seat of empire but the forge of most of its war sinews and the one great base of its all-important...
Britain's institutions have been put to their most searching test in the past month by intensified bombings and tightened counter-blockade. Responsible editors and statesmen alike spoke out with stark frankness, and what they spoke was not altogether cheering...