Word: fateful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...demolish the New Deal; they were even more eager to cheer some challenging declaration of faith. But inflexible Mr. Hoover mushmouthed his delivery; the clear, hot words of his finest address got lost (as always) deep in his bulldog chops. He stood there awkwardly, a near-great man whose fate has been to cast his mother-of-pearl words before mobs who, whether friendly or bitter, always yell "Louder!" No honest Republican denied to himself that the convention until now had laid the biggest egg since...
Last week the home thoughts of the U. S. had concentrated on the Republican National Convention (see p. 16). Its foreign thoughts were fixed on the partitioning of France and the fate of the French Fleet. The thoughts of its Congress (see p. 18} were on preventing the transfer of 20 "mosquito" boats to Britain (which the President finally and abruptly canceled), on approving a $4,000,000,000 authorization increasing the U. S. Navy by 70%. But the thoughts of its President were on an idea...
...Before carrying out my Government's order," said General Huntziger, "the French delegation deems it necessary to declare that, in a moment when France is compelled by fate of arms to give up the fight, she has a right to expect that the coming negotiations will be dominated by a spirit that will give two great neighboring nations a chance to live and work once more. As a soldier you will well understand the onerous moment that has now come...
...overwhelming enemy, Germany. An official British statement surveyed the famine possibilities, found the chances good if the war and blockade could be made to last until winter. Meantime, blockade was in the balance. Its continuance and extension off Germany's long new Atlantic coastline depended primarily on the fate of the French Navy...
This week that fate was sealed, so far as France's new Government was concerned (see p. 20). But how many officers would obey orders issued under Axis duress and surrender their ships remained a major question. Bulk of the French Navy was believed to be in the Eastern Mediterranean. When the commandant of the naval base at Toulon announced that he and his men would fight on regardless of the armistices, that seemed a clue to the temper of French naval forces in the West. The French had been operating since September under direction of the British Admiralty...