Word: defenders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President's head was bowed as Navy Chaplain Frank R. Wilson, onetime rector of Franklin Roosevelt's own St. James Episcopal Church at Hyde Park, intoned the Collect for Peace: "Defend us, Thy humble servants, in all assaults of our enemies, that we, surely trusting in Thy defense, may not fear the power of any adversaries...
...that by accepting enormous losses, such as would take a generation or two to mend, they could crush Hitler alone. But they do not choose to do that. The Red Army, said Stalin's Order, was "not created for the purpose of conquest of foreign countries, but to defend the frontiers of Soviet land." The Russians intend to have some army left to fight the peace with, too. Therefore, if the Allies have not moved on the Continent by the time Russia restores her borders, Russia may stop there. The Allies' rate of progress in North Africa-prelude...
...Most Germans do not yet believe that they will lose the war. Only among the upper classes is it said that Germany cannot win. Their policy is first, to defend the European fortress strongly enough to convince "sensible" Allied statesmen that "reasonable" terms with Germany would be cheaper than fighting; second, to exploit the fear of Russian Communism as it has never been exploited before. So far, every suggestion that Germany may lose the war has only stiffened the resistance of the German masses...
...exports. But in peacetime this normally implies drastically cutting profit margins, since for many a firm exports mean that extra margin of volume on which profits very largely depend. The alternative is for the U.S. willingly to accept imports. This means eliminating tariffs and trade barriers which special groups defend...
...down their arms. But they knew that Stalingrad had been lost, and that it was one of the worst defeats suffered by any German army in history; they knew also that other strongholds would have to be given up before their armies reached the line on which they would defend the "Fortress Europe...