Word: defenders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jawaharlal Nehru). He got along famously with his Indian callers, freely admitting that he knew nothing about India except what he had learned from Kim and With Clive In India as a boy. Once he quoted to Pandit Nehru: "I disapprove of what you say but I will defend to the death your right...
...elevate able young officers, regardless of social background. The great majority of honest observers regard the Mirror's attacks as sensational and irresponsible journalism. So the case of the Mirror raises the issue of freedom of the press in its most poignant form: men are called upon to defend the right of a paper to publish opinions which may be, and probably are, grossly unfair...
Douglas MacArthur once said in the Philippines: "The United States has ordered me to defend these islands. I propose to defend them." Having defended them to the utmost, he spoke in candor and earnestness when he now proposed to relieve them. On his way southward he spoke incessantly of retaking the Philippines. If it was an obsession-perhaps a little out of focus with his new and larger task in Australia-it was natural for a man who had been through what he had in 94 days of fierce fighting and brilliant resistance...
Well Tested. To defend the Middle East by attacking first, the British had raided Rhodes. At week's end they followed up with bomber attacks on Crete and the German submarine base at Eleusis near Athens. At the same time the British launched land and air attacks along the western route to Egypt. They shelled the Martüla airdrome in Libya while over the bomb-pocked British island base of Malta, R.A.F. fighters and anti-aircraft guns downed twelve German bombers and two Messerschmitt fighters in 24 hours. A report from London that Field Marshal Albert Kesselring...
...push might take one of several courses. It might strike through Turkey toward the oil of the Caucasus. But the barren mountain wastes of Asiatic Turkey would be hard going and easy to defend-if, after Hitler's ceaseless diplomatic pressure, Turkey still chose to defend herself.* More likely, Hitler would strike toward the Caucasus through Russia, would by-pass or edge along western Turkey and drive through Syria toward the oil of Iran and Iraq. And very likely he would blast down the Mediterranean toward Suez, whose capture would speed him toward joining the Japanese in the Indian...