Word: fatal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fatal Fortnight. In the year since he began trying to build a Free French Empire out of what Germany left at Compiegne, General de Gaulle has won nearly two-fifths of the Empire-by mileage-to his cause. He succeeded where economics and geography and the accident of local leadership favored him. Where he failed, it was the fatal two weeks after the fall of France that caused his failure...
...needed the forces now in Iceland and intended to remove them. To leave Iceland unoccupied would be an easy opportunity for Germany to seize the island. With 75% of U.S. aid to Britain going over the northern sea route past Iceland's front door, the result would be fatal...
Argument for such a job is that the U.S. is too deeply involved in war to retain the world's last vestiges of free-market principles. On the domestic front, the Government's division of authority among various departments is annoying to businessmen but not fatal. But in dealing with totalitarian foreign powers, the U.S. needs to confront the world as one power, with one policy and one personnel...
...stiff upper lip in their own defeats were disheartened by news which the U.S. took for granted. It shocked them to learn that American automobile production, in the first three months of 1941, was up almost 20% over the same period of 1940-for Britons had learned the fatal cost of neglecting any possible resources. And automobile production was only one such resource. How could people be so absorbed in every rumor, follow their own advantages in such a crisis, pursue their old rivalries, go way up and way down in their views of the war and their own responsibility...
Cried the London Sunday Express: "Do we even now understand that we are at death grips in a fight for our lives? We do not. . . . These crowds of people . . . were symptoms of a fatal frame of mind. Their peril and their fate were at the back of that mind. Custom and habit were at the front of it. . . . If the cause of the shut down is lack of raw materials, then a sad situation exists. If the cause is 'holiday is as usual,' then a scandalous situation exists...