Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John L. Lewis, starving for personal power at a time when group cooperation is vital, still lives in the thirties. Crying that "the CIO is trying to destroy your entire organization by criticizing UMW officers," he has taken the miners who first followed him out of the AF of L, and led them, with very different purpose, into a new camp. This time he is not merely bucking a Roosevelt or a Murray. He is bucking the combined will of American Labor to unite and cooperate in time of emergency. Under the force of that will, he shall be crushed...
...around No. 10 Downing Street. They knew that as Britain lost or relinquished her empire she would face an increasingly racking economic problem. Wrote Albert Viton last week in Asia: "[Britain's] whole economic system has been built on a foundation of imperialism, and to expect them to destroy with their own hands that foundation is to expect them to make greater sacrifices for the new world order than any people has made thus...
...event of World War I was the Russian Revolution. . . . The major event of World War II is the Indian Revolution. . . . What are we, the United Nations, doing about the Indian Revolution? We are doing everything possible to hamstring, to frustrate, to spike, to cripple, to undermine and ultimately to destroy [it] What earthly good will that...
Major General Ira Eaker, U.S. bomber commander in Britain: "There are enough airdromes now built and building to "accommodate all the Allied air forces needed for the destruction of Germany. I believe it is possible to destroy the enemy from the air. By destroying his aircraft factories you can put an end to his air force. By destroying his munition plants and communications you can make it impossible for him to build submarines. There is nothing that can be destroyed by gunfire that cannot be destroyed by bombs...
...sturdy. . . . He is half starved, but he is Spartan. . . . He is a clever and dangerous enemy. His will to conquer is utterly ruthless, utterly cruel and utterly blind to any of the values which make up our civilization. The only way to stop that will is to destroy it. If you fail-please mark my words-you pass into slavery and all America passes into slavery with you."-Joseph Clark Grew, U.S. Ambassador to Japan from...