Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that we have a very real stake in the war that rages across the sea. If Germany wins, we are told by alarmists, we will be threatened with invasion; yet most military observers say such invasion is virtually impossible. If Germany wins, we are warned by the heralds of doom, we shall be forced to gear our economy to totalitarian requirements and Nazify ourselves; yet this has a hollow ring in view of our relative self-sufficiency...
Wherever, whenever it came, it must be a surprise. "Surprise," wrote Adolf Hitler's theorist Colonel Hermann Foertsch, "can be effected by deception of the opponent either in time or in direction." Plans must be kept dark as doom. Frederick the Great, who knew his strategy, used to say: "If I thought my coat knew my plans, I would take it off and burn...
...much Milhaud lately, found that Darius Milhaud could still turn a phrase of hard-bitten counterpoint as expertly as any of his contemporaries. A massive, close-knit dead march, the Cortege Funebre was imposingly militant rather than sad, made The Netherlands' fall ring with the relentless finality of doom...
...Little brown Haile Selassie, whom Britain again recognizes as Ethiopia's rightful Emperor, passed by plane through Khartoum on his way to join his warriors somewhere on his former country's border. Said he: "Italy has set the seal of her own doom and has provided my people with the moment to strike. . . . We shall fight with the utmost tenacity. . . . God's time is now at hand...
Significantly different from these books of doom in pulse, pace and outlook is a story of war and sudden death by U. S. Author Leland Jamieson. It is a simple, all-action narrative (recently serialized in the Saturday Evening Post) about outnumbered U. S. planes and a power-diving hero in an undeclared Blitzkrieg against the U. S. Fatigue sickens the young airman, fear of death cramps his stomach muscles, terror of being lost at sea in the night momentarily deprives him of his senses. But the last thing he thinks about is the end of the world...