Word: fates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Somehow, but Americans knew not how, the fate of the U.S. was involved in this ghostly contest. Some time, though they knew not when, Hitler's triumphs were to stop, the unrest of the conquered countries was to grow, U.S. supplies to invaded countries would be enough, and the Nazis would go down. By some means, though they knew not what they were, the daily round of their own familiar U.S. life was made uneasy by the outcome...
...fate of Russia appeared to depend on the U.S. keeping open the supply line to Vladivostok. If Russia capitulated or went down in defeat, Hitler would reach the borders of China; Japan, the shores of Siberia; and the Axis would be in a position to seize Africa (see p. jo). Nobody was clairvoyant enough to visualize all the possibilities, but one thing was clear. The U.S. could not make separate decisions in the Atlantic and the Pacific. The war in the East and the war in the West were one. It was now plain that the U.S. could count...
...market place I was jostled by a woman in the 'crowd and when I turned I saw it was Death that jostled me. She looked at me and made a threatening gesture; now, lend me your horse, and I will ride away from this city and avoid my fate. I will go to Samarra and there Death will not find me." The merchant lent him his horse, and the servant mounted it, and he dug his spurs in its flanks and as fast as the horse could gallop he went. Then the merchant went down to the market place...
...commentary, readers will probably find Section IV' on "Bloodless Victories" the most interesting. Rarely before in history has the success or failure of a powerful movement depended so completely on the oratorical genius, the political sense of a single man. At this time the German Army is determining the fate of the Reich, but when Hitler occupied the Rhineland he alone was guiding Germany over a tight-rope of political uncertainty when any slip would mean a fall disastrous to his regime. His overwhelming victory was a personal rather than a national triumph, and the psychological tactics he used...
Three out of seven House committees have voted their approval of the plan to lodge draftees on week-end leave from Fort Devens with Harvard men, an indication that the drive will probably not meet the quick fate of the recent "share-our-showers" movement...