Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fighting Germany and the British people are fighting the German people. Don't let there be any mistake about it." Nonetheless there was such stiff public criticism of Duff Cooper's attitude that two days later he hastened to amplify it: "I think it is essential to destroy [the] German armed forces and not let them have weapons again. You cannot do that without hurting many German people. We have got to defeat Germany and we cannot accept the excuse that [the war] is the fault of the Government. They have made that excuse too often...
Because comic strip hero Superman recently spread pacifist propaganda in the trenches, singlehanded attempted to destroy the Westwall and all its works, Das Schwarze Korps (organ of the Nazi SS Guards) stormed, "Instead of taking wise advantage of the opportunity really to further serious virtues, he sows hate, injustice, laziness and crime. ... It is pitiful that American children . . . don't even recognize the poison...
While I don't heartily approve of all the tactics of the Dies committee, I believe that this committee has justification for this actions, because those who use as a shield the "Inviolability of the human person," are those who would destroy this inviolability at the first opportunity, and they must be dealt with by special measures. Thank God we have a Dies committee to disclose and put to an end the Trojan Horse methods of Communists, as advocated by Commissar Dimitroff...
...snow, night and, above all, naval secrecy obscured the problem. Britain's "heavy stuff" (battleships and battle cruisers) lay over the horizon in the North Sea waiting for cruisers to call the cues. Cruisers in turn waited for destroy ers, airplanes, submarines to set the stage...
Phase Four: Blockade. Having sunk by its own account one-third of Germany's fighting ships the Allied fleet settled down to the lengthy task of trying to isolate and destroy the rest. First step was the swift and probably very sketchy laying of vast Allied minefields extending from Dutch waters in the North Sea, around the flat, sandy, northern prong of what in less than 24 hours ceased to be Denmark, in the Kattegat right down through the Danish Belts (straits) and then, amazingly, clear across the Baltic to Memel and Lithuania...