Word: fates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hanging breathless on thy fate...
Plane v. Ship. The second question mark was one whose answer will decide the fate of Britain's Empire. Landing operations near Tripoli would expose the fleet to the full blast of German air attacks from Sicily, just 300 miles due north. The operation might shed much light on the crucial question: will air power or sea power...
...door before he could utter more than a half sentence. Why the action was taken was left unexplained by Senator George, the head of the Committee. When other members of the Youth Congress present at the hearing applauded their president's departing squawks, they were threatened with a similar fate, and walked out on their own accord. When Senator Clark stood up for their right to peaceful petition and demanded an explanation, Senator George, to quote the newspaper report, "made no audible reply...
...Manila and President of the Commonwealth Manuel Quezon lay ill in bed. His friends feared that his illness might be a return of tuberculosis. But the agile little President was not too ill last week to know what was going on. He knew how precariously balanced was the fate of the British Empire and the freedom of the vast sea across which the sprawling Philippines face Asia. He knew that if Japan, already groping south, reaches for the rich empire of the East Indies, the Philippines will be in danger...
...other Frenchmen. Three days after General Catroux's announcement, General de Gaulle addressed a call to arms to the pro-Vichy armies under General Maxime Weygand in North Africa and Syria: "Are you going to remain inactive with arms at your side, humiliated, broken-spirited, when the fate of France and her Empire is being decided within range of your guns? . . . The game is not finished." General Weygand deemed the challenge worthy of a reply. Next day he broadcast : "You have heard an appeal to take part again in a struggle that was ended by France with the conclusion...