Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President also made it clear that the U.S. will do its utmost to feed Europe this winter. Said he: "Europe today is hungry. ... As the winter comes on, the distress will increase. Desperate men are liable to destroy . . . society to find in the wreckage some substitute for hope. Unless we do what we can to help, we may lose next winter what we won at such terrible cost last spring. . . . We must help to the limits of our strength. And we will...
...keep Germany from making war again was the central question at Potsdam. To destroy Germany utterly and forever might put Europe back a century economically and leave a political vacuum into which Big Three rivalries would rush. To preserve the old Germany was to run an all-too-familiar risk...
...opinion that the Japs will not accept the terms. Personally, I hope they do not. Although we have certainly destroyed their fleet and are in a fair way to destroy their industry, none of the major ground forces have yet been defeated. If the Kwantung Army [in Manchuria] comes out of this without being defeated and the Japanese homeland itself is not invaded, I feel that we will be heading for trouble in another 40 years...
Cried dapper ex-Premier Paul Reynaud, 66, who had been Pétain's predecessor: "I, like the rest of France, was fooled by the Marshal. ... He tried to destroy what remained of France's soul...
...Dead End Kid who calls the Japs monkeys, whose battle cry is "Kill Japs, kill Japs, and then kill more Japs." They also know him as the calculating, chance-taking seaman who coolly gambled on disaster in the Philip pines invasion last fall to send his fleet north and destroy most of the surviving carriers of the Japanese fleet...