Word: defenders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russians were weak enough, so weak that they passively relinquished what they could not defend. But the Japs were as yet none too strong, certainly not strong enough to withstand the U.S. diplomatic pressure which was soon turned upon them. Because of this pressure, they withdrew their armies, returned formal sovereignty over the invaded territory to Russia, kept some trading concessions-and never forgave the U.S. Once again, just as in the earlier Russo-Japanese War's aftermath, the U.S., all unknowing, had indelibly-imprinted itself in Japanese minds as an enemy of Japan in Asia...
General Stern cannot hope to defend his whole line. Instead he has a string of strong points, some to be held against the Japanese. Thus, if & when the new war between Russia and Japan begins, it will be one of great initial advances for the Japs, hard & fast counterblows for the Russians...
...University petitioned National W.C.T.U. President Ida B. Wise Smith to undertake "a drive against the misconception that Navy men are intemperate," to "seek to discredit the popular simile 'reeling like a drunken sailor.' " Said President Smith, reassuringly: "We of the W.C.T.U. will be glad to help them defend their reputations...
That was the only way that Private Edward Leonski, 24-year-old New York grocery-boy-draftee with the U.S. Signal Corps in Australia, knew how to defend himself. It was not enough to convince a medical board of two Army physicians and an Australian alienist. They declared that Leonski was sane and always had been. Last week an Army tribunal, sitting in Melbourne, sentenced him to be hanged...
...urge Friends to be active in the performance of all the duties of good citizenship.' In a day when democratic nations are going down like ninepins, I doubt whether 'good citizenship' can reasonably be taken to lie in enjoying the benefits of democracy while refusing to defend it, and in using one's freedom to make the survival of freedom more difficult...