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...Joachim von Ribbentrop and Viacheslav Molotov had signed the Russian-German pact in Moscow. Twelve hours after its ratification on Aug. 31, Hitler gave the signal that sent the German armored divisions rumbling across the frontier against the Polish cavalry, the Luftwaffe against the all but defenseless Polish cities. Thus, on the fifth anniversary of World War II, the war was back where it started...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Five Years of War | 9/4/1944 | See Source »

...Base: With the fall and the so-called social season just beginning, some of the lads jumped the gun over the past weekend. Wellesley an its new Freshman class was the scene of the most activity, as a howling mob swep down upon the poor defenseless little girlies. Ed Johnson and Art Hein challenge that last statement. It seems that both of these boys chanced upon the same young lady. While no willow thing, she was a girl, and that's something. Net result of the encounter: two badly bruised young Ensigns. It seen Miss Wellesley was the captain...

Author: By W. M. Cousine and T. X. Cronin, S | Title: The Lucky Bag | 9/1/1944 | See Source »

...that the Russian Orthodox priests and their congregations would flock to the side of Rus sia's Nazi invaders, who would free them from the persecuting Bolsheviks. What Hitler did not foresee was that his inva sion would turn Russia from a country in which a majority of defenseless Christians was ruled by an aggressive anti-religious minority into a nation in arms, in which the majority, though intensely patriotic, was no longer defenseless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Break-Through | 12/27/1943 | See Source »

...Mussolini, who did not hesitate to use poisonous gas through Badoglio against defenseless people . . . should certainly not be permitted to end his days in safe retirement. . . . Ethiopia is less interested in vengeance for the past than in justice for the future. . . . Much more important . . . [is] the building and maintaining of international institutions that will prevent the rise of political bullies trampling on the rights of small nations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ETHIOPIA: Sermon from Addis Ababa | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

Less than a year ago, Germany was reaching across Africa and into the Caucasus, preparing to strike at Suez. A huge pincers movement threatened to put the entire Middle East in Axis hands. Japan, victorious in Burma, stood at the threshold of an almost defenseless, politically confused India. The enemy had a very good chance to join hands; the result might easily have been the complete defeat of Russia, Britain, the U.S. and China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, STRATEGY: Divided They Fall | 5/24/1943 | See Source »

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