Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hermann Goring's private plane was taken over by the French Health Ministry for a new service: two-hour junkets for children with whooping cough. The Ministry has a theory that high altitudes destroy pertussis germs...
...accept the bombing of strategic centers and objects as a doleful necessity of modern war [but] we are disturbed by . ., . military strategies calculated to destroy all the great cities of Japan crowded with their helpless populations. ... No military strategist has given the nation proof of the 'military necessity' of unrestricted bombing...
...power did not do what many an American thinks it did. It did not destroy German industry nor the potentials for a third world war. Airmen's explanation: "selective bombing" was never intended to destroy all industry. In any event, the host of Allied experts is gradually realizing that 70% of German industry, perhaps more, escaped the bombs...
...seems to me that the opposite implication can be found in the analogy, namely, that the Emperor is to be destroyed if we want to destroy the present anachronistic Japanese society. The word "disintegration" a la beehive seems to scare Mr. Grew. Obviously all Japanese would not wither and die when the Emperor is disposed of, as the hive does when the queen dies. What would happen...
...have destroyed all the target areas we have set out to destroy...