Word: hastening
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...urge the British and American Governments to raise these questions with the Soviet Government, and we ourselves appeal to our Russian allies to take cognizance of the legitimate disquiet of the American people. We ask this not only because it would strengthen our unity in the war and hasten the day of victory, but because it would cement the friendship between the Russian and American peoples in the crucial years to come...
Pressure from the Sky. The Allies are doing what they can to hasten Bulgarian defection. Last week U.S. bombers by day, R.A.F. bombers by night all but wrecked Sofia with a one-two punch. More than 3,000 lives were Sofia's sacrifice to alliance with the Axis. Bombs wiped out the center of the city, disrupted the telephone and water systems. Fires swept the town. After seven raids in two months (all from Allied air bases in Italy), the city's air-raid alarms had been destroyed; church bells had to be used as alerts. Bulgaria...
...fact that in 1918 the German nation, led astray by the lying words of the United States President [Wilson], believed it could hasten the end by a voluntary armistice not only drove Germany into the deepest disaster but was responsible for the present war."-Adolf Hitler in his 1944 New Year's Proclamation to the German People...
Arawe lies 290 wild, rugged miles from Rabaul and its broad harbor. At Arawe, the. General is not in position for a practicable overland march. But he is in a key spot to hasten the process of isolating Rabaul, a process begun by strong seaand-air attacks in the past two months...
...real doubt. Joseph Stalin may mean exactly what he has allowed the National Committee of Free Germany and the German Officers' Union to say repeatedly from Moscow-I.e., that Germany can find a quick and safe peace simply by overthrowing Hitler. Or he may intend merely to hasten the disintegration of Nazi Germany and to provide himself with a strong bargaining point...