Word: defend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...deflating the Luftwaffe's boast of sky dominance, giving R. A. F. the edge to date in the Battle of Britain. President Roosevelt's military observing mission to Britain (see p. 18) was reported ready to go home, supposedly well impressed with Britain's ability to defend herself...
With the defeat of France the world's second largest empire returned to the international crucible. With the British Navy controlling the sea, the French could no longer defend it, the German conquerors could not reach it. Slapping down a blockade that severed the Empire from France, politically and economically, Great Britain sat down to wait for pressure to produce results. Last week they came in a rush as colony after colony forsook the Vichy Government for the defiant banner of General Charles de Gaulle, self-appointed leader of "free Frenchmen...
...Governor Adolphe Felix Sylvestre Eboue, French-educated rugby player whose administrative ability so impressed his superiors that he landed the only French governorship held by a Negro. Having lined up a small garrison of colonial troops, Rebel Eboue proclaimed allegiance to General de Gaulle: "... The people of Chad will defend their territory for France against all comers...
...days later an anonymous "Committee for the Recognition of Classroom Generals" sent tin toys to six professors, with cliations such as the following: "To Samuel H. Cross, an anti-aircraft gun to carry out his plan to defend the Women's Clubs of America from a fate worse than death...
...October 1938, Reader Howard R. Anderson of Ithaca, N. Y. wrote TIME advocating: 1) $3,000,000,000 a year for defense; 2) a navy powerful enough to defend two coasts against any coalition; 3) an air force superior to that of any foreign power; 4) construction of military roads; mechanization; air defense for major cities; 5) compulsory military service (labor corps, active service, reserves); 6) suppression of "hyphenated organizations"; 7) inclusion within the U. S. of all territory from Alaska to Panama. Month later, Reader Anderson not only pleaded "satire" but conceded that his proposals were "nonsensical." Now Reader...