Word: hopelessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Closing of the 31 U.S. consulates in Europe severed the last thread by which U.S. businessmen kept some contact with an estimated $1,327,000,000 worth of holdings in Axis-controlled countries. Now hopeless were Jews who still hoped to flee from Germany to the U.S., for closed consulates give out no visas. Furthermore, in its new, hard-boiled foreign policy the U.S. was frowning heavily upon any more immigration, had dusted off an old order that visas should not be issued to any European refugees who were leaving close relatives behind them in Germany. Possible reason: such people...
Month ago, when the Nazis were sprinting across Libya toward Egypt and the British needed every man they could muster from East Africa, Lieut. General Alan Gordan Cunningham offered the Duke of Aosta peace terms. The Duke was in such a hopeless military position that he must have eyed the terms wistfully, even though accepting them would have meant giving up his much-loved gaudy uniforms; but he had strict orders not to give in-having lost Ethiopia, he might as well detain as many British as possible as long as possible...
...often ran almost empty on its Government subsidies, carried only around 30% of the nation's foreign trade. But by last week almost all of Britain's big merchant marine had been withdrawn for war duty, and the U.S. fleet was puffing and panting with the hopeless task of carrying as many as possible of the cargoes the British used to move...
Just what those dangers were, not only in the Mediterranean but elsewhere, was all too evident this week. Turkey, already under a German diplomatic attack, soon would have to choose whether to fight a hopeless war or let Nazi troops pass through on their way to the Mosul oil fields. Vichy was under pressure to help Germany in Africa (see p. 30). Pressure was expected in Spain for help in an attack on Gibraltar, perhaps on Portugal as well. Japan was making bold gestures toward Singapore, where British reinforcements were rushed (see p. 30). Against all these threats Winston Churchill...
Politically the British defeat in Greece just about blew the delicately balanced lid off the Australian tea-billy. Much of the Australian press, a majority of Australians and almost all of the continent's vociferous Laborites wanted to know why the Anzacs had been sent into the hopeless Greek campaign in the first place, above all why Australia's Advisory War Council had not been consulted before they were sent...