Word: faction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Goebbels and his faction believe that a bitter defense of Festung Europa and the campaign to frighten the U.S. and Britain with Russian Communism can bring the Allies to terms. Germany, according to this reasoning, would emerge with substantial victory from this war, keep the opportunity for total victory in the next...
Action All Over. "Our determination is to fight this war through to the finish-to the day when United Nations forces march in triumph through the streets of Berlin and Rome and Tokyo. . . . The only terms on which we shall deal with any Axis government or any Axis faction are the terms proclaimed at Casablanca: 'Unconditional surrender...
...Since the nation was living on inventories of many goods no longer produced, few U.S. citizens realized how tight the civilian belt now was. Some officials thought it was already too tight for public health and morale; others felt it could stand another notch. Donald Nelson agreed with neither faction, took a down-the-middle view. Said he: "I have no evidence as yet to show that we have trimmed too far. On the other hand I feel that not much more trimming can be done that will yield substantial quantities of war materials...
...meeting of the National Committee this year was no such folksy get-together. Long before the St. Louis scramble met, the strategists were hard at work pulling strings which would mean victory for one particular faction. Never before had the election of a national chairman meant so much, or been so vigorously contested. In 1928, the naming of the leader for the coming year was little more than a formality; last week in St. Louis it signified the completion of an internal breakdown that has tormented the Grand Old Party since the Philadelphia gallery broke all custom and practically nominated...
...Army faction maintains that Corporal Joseph Barrow, world's heavyweight champion, is just another soldier and should fight for the Army only. Another group, grateful for the champion's patriotic gesture of donating his only 1942 prizefight earnings ($83,246) to Army & Navy relief funds instead of using the money to pay his 1941 income tax, feels that Louis should be given a chance to raise the $117,000 he owes the Government...