Word: defendant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rangoon would mean China cut off, and the ring for a return bout blasted into splinters. This man Nehru could, with the 425,000,000 Chinese that Chiang represents, hold sway over one-third of the population of the world. The natives of India, given their freedom, could defend themselves with the same phenomenal resistance which has been exhibited by the inspired populations of China and Russia-that same determination which was notably lacking in the peoples of, lulled Malaya...
...defense" or "freedom and democracy," but the point is that these ideas didn't make a force of unity before the war. What ground have we to think they will after? Freedom of speech is a deceptive concept, not positive at all. It can be used as easily to defend the lack of an ideal as to develop the form of a way of life. Unless it is used in the second sense, it is weakening and destructive, as we have seen...
...chances of holding Port Darwin are poor, according to de Haas. "It is not a strong base to begin with, and it is separated from the industrial southern part of Australia by miles of trackless desert. Once Darwin is lost our only hope will be to defend southern Australia...
Britain's spindling Army commander, Lieut. General Arthur Ernest Percival, mindful of the hazard of trying to defend southern Johore with no avenue of escape but the Causeway, had decided to run for it, to get across the Causeway before Japanese bombers blew...
...they crossed in a weary parade, troops sandwiching trucks, refugees teetering on lorries crammed with household goods, cameramen looking warlike armed with all their paraphernalia, the men knew that Singapore Island might be just as hard to defend as Malaya had been. They would have one of the advantages that General MacArthur's troops have on Bataan-a relatively small area for their small numbers to defend. They had about three divisions to guard more than 60 miles of the island's circumference against about six Japanese divisions. They knew, from bitter acquaintance, the preponder ance...