Word: defend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Alaska to Tokyo by air is some 3,000 miles; from Fairbanks to Seattle is 1,550 miles. The road may be strategically useful if the U.S. launches an attack on Japan from Alaska. But it is a strategic necessity if the U.S. is to defend Alaska from the Japs...
Over the Mountains. Southern Burma was all but gone. General Sir Archibald Wavell, taking over the India-Burma command (see p. 19), had to assume that it was gone. He had then to decide what more to defend for the salvation of India...
...that the Japanese would drive on northward, do their most to block these lifelines. With the same stroke, they would further brace themselves for a sea-and-air drive across the Bay of Bengal at India. The Allies, with all Burma gone, would find it harder than ever to defend uncertain India, harder still to place bombers, tanks and artillery in China to answer the flames of Toungoo...
With the idea that one way to defend civilized activity is to persist in it, CBS's educational division planned a series of talks by U.S. historians (Tuesday afternoons 4:15 to 4:30 E.W.T.). Since most weekday, daytime radio fare might be called appealing but could hardly be called instructive, the idea seemed fair enough. Of the headaches involved...
Jesse Jones preaching business as usual and letting us in for a serious rubber shortage; Senator Walsh asking that our navy be called back to defend continental America; Churchill withholding Indian independence in the face of a desperate threat to Britain's eastern empire: these are only symptoms of an attitude that is costing us lives now, and may cost us victory later. It is an attitude that contrasts strangely with the willingness of the Russians to destroy the Dniepropetrousk Dam, the greatest achievement of their nation, because they could look forward to building a better dam when...