Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Claude Pepper brought to this task a consuming conviction that Adolf Hitler was out to destroy U. S. Democracy. Senator Pepper therefore believed that the U. S. should do everything practicable to destroy Hitler first, told the Senate so nearly every working day. Up to last week, he had not come out for declaring war. He had been for 1) maximum aid to the Allies; 2) sending U. S. military planes to the British; 3) sending destroyers to the British; 4) giving President Roosevelt any powers necessary to mobilize the U. S. for defense; 5) conscription...
...awarded sparingly, only for "conspicuous bravery . . . in the presence of the enemy." Last week were awarded the seventh, eighth and ninth V.C.s of World War II, for deeds of extraordinary daring: Acting Flight Lieutenant Roderick Learoyd, 27, pilot of one of five Hampden bombers assigned on Aug. 12 to destroy a special objective on the Dortmund-Ems Canal. His story...
...Nazis gained mastery of the air they could demolish the bases from which the British Fleet operates in the Channel and the North Sea; they could make those narrow seas untenable for the trawlers which lay and sweep mines; they could sink British destroyers (whose vulnerability has already been proved) which tried to counterattack with their own torpedo boats; they could keep British convoys out of the Channel; they could destroy the western port facilities through which Britain receives the goods necessary to her life and defense. Under these conditions the British Fleet might remain unconquered, the British merchant marine...
...that the technique of insurrection is conspiracy. But Lenin taught his eager Bolsheviks that, besides every well-behaved, "legal" Communist Party, they must organize an "illegal," underground Communist Party. Its function, like the submerged three-quarters of an iceberg, would be to destroy in secret. Apt students of the Bolshevik art of conspiracy, as Hitler told Hermann Rauschning, were the Nazis. Soon Nazi Alfred Rosenberg modeled his foreign section of the Nazi Party after the foreign section of the Communist International. Soon Heinrich Himmler modeled his Gestapo after Russia's G. P. U. Soon the whole world paid...
...columns. Ever since Hitler took power, boomerang fifth columns have operated against the Nazis. Most famed, and reputedly the most effective, is the Black Front, an organization of ex-Nazis, ex-Communists, ex-Socialists. Its leader is Otto Strasser, who is widely regarded as the German most likely to destroy Adolf Hitler...