Word: defenders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there was good reason to believe that the Admiral was actually acting on Pétain's orders. There was a precedent: when General Maxime Weygand was appointed Delegate General of North Africa in January 1941, he carried with him orders from Pétain to defend the empire against aggression as he saw fit, and to ignore contrary orders which-if an attack took place-might be forced out of Vichy under German pressure. Darlan might well have carried similar instructions, which would get him obedience from local authorities. Darlan got such obedience: the men of Vichy rallied...
Robert Hale, forthright Portland (Me.) lawyer, former Rhodes Scholar, former State representative, member of a family that has represented Maine in the U.S. Senate almost continuously since 1881. An all-out supporter of the Roosevelt foreign policy, Republican Robert Hale, 52, had to defend himself in the election against an article he wrote for Harper's Magazine in 1936 entitled: But I, Too, Hate Roosevelt* revived by toothy Democrat Louis J. Brann. Maine's voters liked Bale's defense: "I am probably the most outspoken advocate in Maine of President Roosevelt's foreign policies. Also...
...With the airports of French North Africa in Allied hands, land-based Allied planes will be able to defend British convoys headed eastward through the Mediterranean. With the rail and highway route from Casablanca to Tunis, the Allies will not need Mediterranean convoys -even fighters can be flown to Malta and Egypt by easy stages...
Tunisia, marked by obvious strategy for U.S. penetration toward Libya, was now at the eastern end of French rail and highway lines already dominated by U.S. forces. Its commander, General Barre, gathered what forces he had in the interior and said: "We will be attacked and we will defend ourselves." More serious battles in Tunisia were likely to be between Brigadier General Jimmy Doolittle's U.S. planes and Axis aircraft from Sicily, a scant 140 miles away. This week when a bomber bearing General Doolittle was attacked, he took over the controls from his wounded co-pilot and continued...
...least some of the Navy had the will, and the North African Army had the numbers, to obey the order which Marshal Petain issued from Vichy: "France and her honor are at stake. We have been attacked. We will defend ourselves. That is the order which I give...