Word: defenders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mexico's Padilla, whose early speech on "the free American" (TIME, Jan. 26) expressed the optimum hopes of the Conference, drew cheers again when he said: "This is not the time to defend material riches; this is the time and hour of sacrifice. . . . Let us sign the Magna Charta of united America in the midst of the gravest hour ever struck for magna chartas...
Under his command last week General Cárdenas had several squadrons of Mexico's small air force, some armed Coast Guard cutters, a few seasoned troops. They can patrol the peninsula, but are hardly numerous enough to defend it. And they have other jobs: widening and improving the road, laying out airports, installing radio stations, digging wells...
...Aussies were to test in blood a British gamble. Sometime ago the British Command had recognized that it could not hold north Malaya. Its troops were outnumbered four-to-one (or more), out-planed, outgunned, later out-tanked. There were some 1,000 miles of coast to defend, a half-score coastal inlets that invited Japanese flanking...
Although a democracy's successful functioning depends on the people being properly informed, no U.S. newsman need expect to escape the draft as a "necessary man." Declared Draft Director Brigadier General Lewis B. Hershey: "It would be harder to defend an exemption for a newspaperman than, for instance, a physician. Whether you agree with it or not, almost everyone thinks he can write better stuff than appears under your bylines. Physicians use 75? words to describe minor ailments and the public doesn't feel the same about physicians as newspapermen. So, I guess newspapermen will have...
...Louis Barrow had passed his physical exam a few days before with the comment: "Guess I haven't got those flat feet I was afraid of." Asked what he would do if he saw a Jap, he drawled: "In the line of duty I'll defend myself." On the day he was due to report at camp, Joe left his suite in Harlem's best hotel, had his chauffeur drive him to Camp Upton, L.I. Said a worshipful Negro soldier: "Well, Joe, I see you made it." Said Joe: "Yeah, I made...