Word: fateful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...foreign press assembled in the gaudy scarlet-gilt-ivory conference room of the Propaganda Ministry and to the radio world at large, Rosenberg proclaimed a Nazi-dominated "Community of Fate" embracing Sweden, Norway and Denmark. "Fate," he declared, "so willed it that the German Reich has taken under its protection the entire territory from which once the German peoples migrated." Urging the Scandinavian countries, two of which are already Nazi-occupied, to appreciate the honor of German domination, he continued: "A small nation does not violate its honor when it places itself under the protection of a larger nation...
...were of all classes," said he, describing the flight for British Broadcasting Corp. "There were invalids, some so ill that they had to be carried on stretchers, but they had to be taken back and none knows to what fate because it was impossible to get them on ship. . . . We stood for hours on the quay and the heat increased. One poor lady died. We had to pass through customs-heaven knows why-and at last got on board...
...reaction was premature. Nub of the President's case was that if Germany claimed territory in the Western Hemisphere, the U. S. would invoke the Monroe Doctrine. It would not seize the islands or other possessions of the conquered nations for itself. Its position would be that the fate of such possessions should be decided "by and among all the republics of this hemisphere." If a Monroe Doctrine operated in Asia, it would mean that in deciding the fate of Indo-China, all the Asiatic countries would confer. Said Steve Early, summing up the President's view...
Gauleiter Prospects. Meanwhile 40,000,000 Frenchmen locked in Hitler's embrace might, for all the rest of the earth knew of their feelings and their fate, have been swept off the civilized world. The Gestapo doubtless had thousands of them in concentration camps. Mystery surrounded France's democratic leaders. Ex-Premier Paul Reynaud was suffering at an unrevealed hospital from severe head injuries resulting from a "motor accident"; former Premier Edouard Daladier, former Ministers Georges Mandel and Yvon Delbos were "at sea" on a ship long overdue and missing-according to Berlin. The only Frenchmen heard from...
Equally informal was BBC's flash to the children on the fate of the French Fleet. Said the announcer: "It's not a thing about which one likes to say very much. The French Fleet had to be taken under our control to prevent it falling into German hands or else we had to trust Hitler's word that it wouldn't be used against us-and who could do that nowadays...