Word: defenders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Americans got no forwarder. If there had been no Germans there before, there were now. The Nazis moved swiftly into the ruins, to defend them in the best Stalingrad fashion. Soon out of the rubble pricked scores of gun barrels...
...Some of them even did something about it. La Prensa, great and respected daily of Buenos Aires, attacked the savage press-gag laws, the Government which made them (see p. 46). Said Alfredo Palacios, Socialist elder statesman, in La Prensa: "The army is trained to defend the nation, not to govern it." Leaderless construction workers went on strike because "we don't like this Government...
describe their Government as a crocodile trying to look like a nice old man. "The vipers who are crawling on their bellies before Hitler, saying they wish to defend Finland as far east as Petrozavodsk [capital of the Soviet Karelo-Finnish Republic] may find the Red Army defending the Soviet Union as far west as Helsinki," Moscow added ominously. As the Red Army drove into Estonia, 60 miles away across the Gulf of Finland, Moscow's audible, pointed recollections of Finland's part in the bombardment and siege of Leningrad, in the epic sufferings of Leningrad...
Said Vice Admiral Ingram, speaking in directly to Argentines across the estuary: "We have cleaned the enemy from the sea lanes of the South Atlantic. But in the Western Hemisphere not all our enemies are encountered on the high seas. We are down here to support and defend the friends of the Allies, wherever they may be. And battle Axis influences wherever they may be. ... The job of an armed force in wartime is to support our friends and bring discomfort to our enemies." The Vice Admiral's words amounted to a big-stick warning that...
Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, mighty Chicago Anglophobe, described a honey of a plan he had helped work out to defend the U.S. from invasion by the British-after World War I. He told Cleveland's City Club about a scheme "to establish a line about 40 miles long across the isthmus between Lakes Huron and Erie which would protect Detroit" from a possible army "of 300,000 regulars [from] England" which would be "landed in Canada and marched against this country." The Colonel explained that he had worked out the plan with the American General Staff. Added...