Word: defend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...victims even of historical murder scream. The London Poles reacted violently. Said an official communiqué: "Violation . . . of the Atlantic Charter and the right of every nation to defend its own interests. . . . The fifth partition of Poland now accomplished by her Allies." Cried septuagenarian Premier Tomasz Arciszewski: "The Polish nation does not believe in the promises of Russia to guarantee a free, democratic Poland...
Seldom has a statesman of his stature taken such a public drubbing as Prime Minister Winston Churchill for his policy in Greece. Public opinion of all shades distrusted his use of British troops to defend the Greek Government against ELAS. The press was almost unanimously critical. From Athens most correspondents reported the struggle as if ELAS was the defender of Greek liberty and the British troops were little better than Nazis. Twice Churchill had to defend his course in Parliament...
...review of foreign affairs that Foreign Minister Georges Bidault made to the Cabinet. He discussed the demonstrations against the French in those countries which were said here to represent a demand for local control of the armed forces under French command. Mr. Bidault emphatically said that France intends to defend her rights firmly in Syria and Lebanon, and contends that there would be no problem' there, if the British did not interfere...
Errand of Mercy. If the Japs were set to defend Manila like Plaridel, there was trouble ahead-and the greatest danger to thousands of Allied civilians interned in Manila's prison camps. The high command was ready for that...
...review of foreign affairs that Foreign Minister Georges Bidault made to the Cabinet. He discussed the demonstrations against the French in those countries which were said here to represent a demand for local control of the armed forces under French command. Mr. Bidault emphatically said that France intends to defend her rights firmly in Syria and Lebanon, and contends that there would be no problem' there, if the British did not interfere...