Word: defendant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wounded twice, was twice decorated (D.S.O., M.C.)In the British Army his known talent for aggression still outweighs his World War II record as the leader of two "brilliant retreats," from Dunkirk and Burma. Now in Egypt, he commands forces which cannot retreat again without losing all that they defend. At El Alamein his back is to the wall in a theater where three soldiers with greater reputations- Wavell, Cunningham, Auchinleck-failed to beat Rommel...
Appearing in public for the first time since his automobile accident last spring, Brazil's President Getulio Vargas promised: "Brazil will defend her waters, will man her coasts." He tried to quiet the people with announcements that U.S. and Brazilian flyers had sunk seven Axis submarines, that German diplomats had been seized as hostages for Brazilians held by the Nazis, that Axis nationals in Brazil had been warned they might be shipped off to labor camps...
Thank you for printing the only articles I have seen of late which have attempted to explain and defend General Douglas MacArthur in the unhappy position in which he finds himself. . . . Like, I imagine, many others who have been deeply puzzled and chagrined by the lack of action in Australia, I read your articles with great interest. . . . The deep silence on the part of the daily press has given an . . . unfortunate impression...
...Moscow top-flight military men of the United Nations were conferring (see p. 37), undoubtedly about Russia's plight, perhaps to arrange for entry of U.S. British forces from Persia to help defend the remainder of the Caucasus and keep open the Caspian as a supply route. In northern Persia the United Nations had collected men and war materials. Behind them were a string of air bases across Iraq and Persia, at Red Sea and Indian Ocean ports. The time might be at hand for a new move-if Russia consented, for American and British soldiers to join...
...Norway has abandoned the pre-war idea of a Nordic bloc (Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland), both because such a bloc could not defend itself against "one or more of the Great Powers, and because it might be used by Finland (see below) in a war of revenge against Russia, which would not be in Norway's interest...