Word: furtherance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Budget Bureau, brooding aloud over the $134,000,000, received a peremptory Army rebuff: "The Canol project must be completed as rapidly as possible and without further interference or delay."
France still had a legal claim; juridically, the mandate still existed. But this was a tenuous handhold on an area which has traditionally been the scene of Anglo-French imperial rivalry. Commented London's Times with surprising frankness: the settlement "enables the [Syrian and Lebanese] Governments to concert measures...
Perón's actual strength is unknown; national reactions to outside pressure are always uncertain. But, a total embargo against Argentina might interrupt the happy moneymoon of prosperity, make the present regime intensely unpopular, force Peron from power-unless it infuriated the proud Argentines, turned them still further...
Peril in August. "I remember well in August of last year when I came to join the Eighth Army. ... I was told the Eighth was in imminent danger of being attacked by Rommel and that at all costs it was to be preserved and withdrawn down the Alexandria-Cairo road...
Heroism & Ruins. The Führer said that Germany was "probably the only country . . . that has increased its coal production and subordinated everything to the demands of war by extreme restriction of private requirements." The homeland had stood up to the bombings so well that it could, he said, now...