Word: dunkirks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hailing the merging of American and British interests: "Let it roll. Let it roll on in full flood, inexorable, irresistible, benignant, to broader lands and better days." By the end of 1941 he watched it rolling. U.S.-British cooperation, that had seemed a dim hope after Dunkirk had become a living reality...
English eyebrows were raised at the reports of these U.S. jitters. They knew that nuisance raids by German planes across the Atlantic are possible but improbable. Even when Britain, in her darkest hour, was evacuating her shattered troops from Dunkirk, there was no great hysteria in London. But a large part of the U.S., including even some of its interventionists, had convinced itself that the U.S. was immune to direct attack, a handicap from which Britain did not suffer...
...above all the year when men were trying to readjust themselves in books to two years of political shocks, from Munich to Dunkirk, which challenged every value by which men had thinkingly or unthinkingly lived...
...beach at Dunkirk it ceased to be possible to take democracy for granted. In 1941 men tried to stem this fact in a flood of dollar books about democracy, which revived the art of pamphleteering, but cost persistently patriotic publishers easily foreseeable losses...
...battle was as big as the world. And the U.S. was in it-not as far as it might be-but almost as far as it could go with out a Dunkirk...