Word: holocaust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Japan does not want American "friendship," but she has one desire. She wants the united States to enter the European holocaust just as much as Hitler wants Japan to fight the United States, and so whenever possible Japan likes to make America feel secure in the Pacific. For this end., if necessary, she will betray her beloved ally, Nazi Germany. As soon as America plunges into the battle of the Atlantic, and when it waxes so hot that she has double-crossed and re double-crossed her friends and enemies...
...various Russian cities had already been reported ruined by Russian hands. The retreat had been slow enough to make possible some industrial destruction (factories cannot be destroyed by the hasty heaving of dynamite sticks). Last week Berlin's radio Propagandist Lord Haw-Haw acknowledged an earth-scorching holocaust in the Western Ukraine, gave a clue to the reason for Stalin's reestablishment of political commissars in the Red Army (TIME, July...
...This I Know" Inman faces his most difficult problem, that of coping with a holocaust. His attitude resembles very much that of another chronic invalid, fifty years ago, W. E. Henley. "I am the captain of my soul" is written all over these verses, coupled with a strong sense of excitement at being alive in such a time. The attitude has not aged well, but we can admire Mr. Inman's courage if not his solution...
...nation, the blood of civilization. I look through the old man, Uncle Sam, outstretched upon the gibbet, and I see his son not given an opportunity to be crucified but only given an opportunity to be murdered in mass formation. I see my country going down into a holocaust of hell where others have been bleeding for centuries...
Verdun, the eighth and climactic volume of Jules Romains' vast Men of Good Will (TIME, Jan. 8, 1940), was pure holocaust on the heroic scale. It was his attempt to show a nation, a continent, an age in the paroxysm of war. It was the heaviest piece of orchestration Romains' gigantic project had yet demanded...