Word: defend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...defend South America, its defense must be economic as well as military. Under the proposed plan, one international corporation would be set up, subject to Congressional and diplomatic approval, to act as a single clearing house...
Made to Take. "I shall fight in front of Paris, in Paris, behind Paris," swore France's old tiger, Georges Clemenceau in 1914 when German artillery rumbled 17 miles away. "We shall defend every stone, every clod of earth, every lamppost and every building," declared an official French spokesman last week...
...defend Paris, however, was a task made surpassingly difficult by the plan of the city. Following six decades of revolution and rioting during which its streets were barricaded on some six occasions, Napoleon III commissioned Baron Eugene Georges Haussmann in 1853 to beautify the city and in doing so to eliminate the tangled mass of crooked streets so ideal for riots and street fighting. The wide boulevards and strategically located focal points such as the Etoile thus came into being. Haussmann figured that barricades could not be easily erected across wide boulevards, nor could the favorite technique of shooting...
...Shall Fight On." In London, Prime Minister Churchill paid a gallant tribute to "the gallant French people who have fallen into this terrible misfortune," disclosed that Britain had vainly proposed to France union into a single nation. As for England, said he: "We shall defend our island, and with the British Empire around us we shall fight on, unconquerable, until the curse of Hitler is lifted from the brows...
...week's end, the case of the Consul's letter was a cause celebre. In Washington, some half-dozen New England Congressmen, three Senators rose to defend the freedom of the press. Representative John E. Casey announced that an agent of the Dies Committee was on his way to Boston to investigate the Nazi Consulate's un-American activities...