Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...modern struggle for life. Among the ways and means of survival in this fateful hour, administrative management will loom large-if not the largest single factor in the death grapple we now face. What we encounter is not just another "interesting, problem" but a bloody clash with grim reality. What we are swiftly approaching-are now actually in-is a now era in national and world affairs. This is a revolutionary period-almost a preview of Armageddon...
...climb aboard the Anti-Comintern Pact, and she was the first to gain territories with the help of the Axis. Rumania, at whose expense the more recent gains were made, joined because she had to. There were some 15,000 German soldiers garrisoned in Rumania last week as a grim guarantee of friendship. Most people thought of Slovakia as part of Greater Germany (actually the area is a "protectorate"), so its signing was no shock. The signers for both Rumania and Slovakia were political jailbirds released by the Nazis...
...mystery, at least to Britain. What was discussed when Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov visited Berlin was still secret, but all the world knew the classic cornerstone of Russian diplomacy: that no nation but Russia should control the Black Sea straits. Joseph Stalin's choice was now a grim one. If he acquiesced in the Axis Drang nach Osten, he ran the risk of being bottled in both the Baltic and Black Seas by Germany. If he did not, he ran the risk of being attacked by 2,000,000 real soldiers through what used to be Poland...
...deplorable Balkan adventure last week, and the Greek Army joined the Finnish on a history page reserved for little fellows who knew how to fight for home and honor. But the first round seldom decides a prize fight, and beneath little Greece's jubilation lay some grim facts. Greece faced woeful shortages of almost everything that it takes to fight a war. She lacked meat, wheat, oil, coal, sugar. Her chief sources of income-shipping and tourists-were no more. Her best customer of wine, olive oil and tobacco was Germany. Only Turkey and Great Britain can help...
Last week a stack of British medical journals, long delayed, reached the U. S. Largely devoted to such grim warlike topics as blood transfusions, epidemics, war neuroses and head injuries, the journals still had space for tidbits of civil medicine. Sample tidbits...