Word: harshly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Battle of France was as good as lost, and the Germans admitted it. In addition to whining unofficial talk about "harsh or mild peace terms," the Berlin radio broadcast a chill War Ministry statement : "We must be prepared for a German withdrawal from France. We must expect the loss of places with world-famous names...
...encircled at week's end, and Red artillery was pulverizing its garrison. Joseph Stalin & Co. would no doubt find a saturnine pleasure in dictating peace terms at Brest-Litovsk. It was there, on March 3, 1918, that the Kaiser's men, "sword in hand," laid down their harsh peace terms to the representatives of Trotsky and Lenin...
Terrified women, clutching their children, and sullen, bewildered men hurried to obey the harsh-faced Germans, who had tommy guns at their hips. Old people and invalids were rooted out, sent hobbling after the others...
Burden of the Vanquished. Italians who understood the harsh terms of the armistice cried aloud. They complained that anti-Fascist Italians were being done a gross injustice. They declared (with some reason) that the terms had been drafted at Casablanca, when no one foresaw Italy's quick collapse. They wanted Italy to have the full status of a willing cobelligerent and an ally against the Germans. Loudest of the outcries came from the Socialist Avanti's Editor Pietro Nenni. Wrote he: "We in Italy are finding how superficial, summary and empirical are Allied ideas of Europe...
...Cherbourg poules gestured to G-5 men: "The people will slit our throats like this-zippp-" Someone suggested a nunnery; the poules hooted. Then G-5 stopped fooling, dumped them in a stockade for unsavory characters, hoped that the harsh conditions there would persuade them to drift back one by one into the forgetful demimonde...