Word: easiest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Step No. 1 was easiest. "Papen had the advantage of speaking the same language as the President. They also shared the same Junker ideal of life. They discussed their estates, they went shooting together, and spoke of the Kaiser as His Imperial Majesty. It was a well-known fact that nobody could make the Field Marshal laugh as heartily and as often as Fraenzchen." To Hindenburg, he was soon "a mixture of aide-de-camp, foster son and confidential adviser...
...made Adolf Hitler's avowed aim of reaching the Volga by winter seem a possibility. If he did, it would not mean Russia's inevitable surrender any more than an invader's reaching the Mississippi would mean inevitable U.S. surrender. But it would mean that the easiest route for U.S. and British aid to Russia-via the Middle East and the Caucasus-was gone. Adolf Hitler would once again have succeeded in dividing his deadly enemies...
...been really right about World War II is Sir Richard Stafford Cripps. From the starting gun, he maintained that Britain's interest and Russia's were the same. In June 1940 the British Foreign Office sent him as Ambassador to Moscow, apparently as the easiest way to hush him up. Last week he addressed a paean to the Russian people, which if it was as right as his record, was good news. Of Hitler's invasion of Russia...
...that some day they might again rule their own roosts. Possibly the little vegetable patches and few animals that Stalin has allowed Russia's collective farmers to cultivate privately-sometimes life-savers-would be somewhat increased under Hitler. But almost certainly Germany would stick to basic collectivism-the easiest way of forcing the slaves to work as the master requires...
...pointed to a move to the south. The press started a campaign designed to show that Great Britain, the U.S. and Chungking were plotting the "encirclement" of Japan. There were hints that Thailand, which had a mild domestic crisis last week, might need Japanese "protection." Pointing straight at the easiest mark, Domei accused French Indo-China of persecuting pro-Japanese Annamites, of maintaining "close economic, military and political relations with Great Britain and the United States." Domei called for "counter-measures." The Japan Times and Advertiser, Foreign Office mouthpiece, said flatly: "If the alarming picture of anti-Japanese operations...