Word: defendant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Price of Despair. From Algiers came a vivid indictment of Washington's policy of limited, insufficient recognition (all hands blamed President Roosevelt more than Prime Minister Churchill). Cabled New York Timesman Harold Callender, who used to defend the State Department's attitude toward De Gaulle...
...sense, the dribble was worse than none. The bombers that did go into action caught a surprised enemy off guard, shocked him and punished him. But the full pace of attack could not be maintained. The enemy learned how to defend himself. He revised his plane production, developed new tactics, improved his ack-ack barrage, shifted the weight of his air strength westward...
Fight or Flee? The Germans could not seem to make up their minds whether they would defend Rome or not. A Berlin radio announcement that Rome would positively be defended was contradicted by Adolf Hitler's own newspaper. The Volkischer Beobachter declared-perhaps to prepare the home front for more bad news -that the retreat would continue to North Italy. The Vichy radio bleated: "The capture of Rome would bring no new element in the conduct of the war except the prestige.. . . The German High Command has stated on many previous occasions that it would accept battle only...
Taking the affirmative position for Harvard will be Albert J. Marks, Jr. '47, and Arthur D. Sporn '47, of the Debating Council. The Dartmouth debaters will defend the negative...
...same time another team from the Debating Council, consisting of Leopold H. Haimson '45, Edwin J. Jacob '47, and Ellis Kaplan '46, with Ronald G. Newburgh '46 as alternate, will defend the negative position against Yale at New Haven...