Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pretty brave to fight Great Britain at all ("a matter of pride that will live through the centuries"). Adolf had less explaining to do. He was full of confidence for the future: "Where British ships will appear, and where Britain will fight us, we will fight them and destroy them. . . . I have fought with many democratic enemies, and I have always come out of the battle as conqueror. . . . The time comes again in which you can come to grips. . . . I look into the future with a fanatic faith." In fact, Adolf was feeling fine, and said so. "I thank providence...
...human cries rent the air, from an old man came a cold, terrible-childlike idea that was as startling as the touch of a dead hand. To the ingenuous mechanic's mind of Henry Ford, the logical course was for the U. S. to help the nations destroy each other...
...ardent aim of the millions of heroic common people in Britain, first to defend themselves against the dictators and finally to destroy them, arises basically from the deep-held desire to insure for their masses and for their fellow men in other lands a much larger measure of economic freedom and security than the conventional capitalistic and imperialistic system has previously provided...
...airplane brought incendiarism back to its own. Ludendorff's memoirs reveal that German aviation was ready to destroy London and Paris in 1918 with newly invented magnesium-thermite bombs. But the German Army's situation was then so desperate that the high command felt such horror would win them only harsher peace terms. Magnesium-thermite bombs, now raining on British cities, were first used extensively in the Italian invasion of Ethiopia in 1936. But, says Zanetti, no new incendiary types have been invented since 1918, nor are new types very likely to appear. Other pyrofacts...
...opinion we must follow up our material aid, if it does not suffice, with soldiers and sailors from this country to insure the defeat of Hitler and Hitlerism. We fell that we must set a limit on our aid lest it destroy its original purpose. Our aid policy is a means to the end of securing liberty over here; we must not let the means destroy the end. We must not permit ourselves to become militarily involved in the war. If American soldiers or sailors start to fight Britain's battle, our own battle will be lost. Unlike...