Word: inland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nobody paid much mind to A. B. ("Cyclone") Davis of Dallas, who runs for everything; to a politically unknown ex-West Pointer who buys radio time to demand an immediate declaration of war against Germany, Japan, Italy; to old Basil Muse Hatfield, "Commodore of Inland Rivers," who is campaigning for a five-ocean navy...
...will have to get into the safest place you can find and stay there until the battle is over. . . . This also applies to people inland if a considerable number of parachutists . . . are landed. . . . Above all, they must not cumber the roads. . . . It may easily be some weeks before the invader has been totally destroyed...
...legate in Split in 1076. In 1089 the Croats killed him because they thought he had sold out to Rome. The 13 years of Zvonimir's rule were those of Croatia's broadest boundaries. The kingdom had an Adriatic coastline running from Fiume to Split and thrust inland almost to Belgrade. Croatian provincials have never forgotten that. Said the nationalistic Croatiapress in 1937: "Dalmatia, Herzegovina, Bosnia, Slavonia and Croatia ... are pure Croatian provinces and the Croatian people have the sole right to them...
...maintain our naval superiority, 2) our fleet is kept concentrated (either in the Atlantic or Pacific) until the two-ocean navy is completed, 3) Singapore, Guam and Manila are adequately fortified. Invasion of Japan would not be necessary and the Nipponese Navy, to escape being bombed out of the Inland Sea, would probably have to fight a decisive full-dress battle- which Journalist Hauser, no naval expert, insists high Japanese naval officials would seek to avoid...
These remarks were as dumfounding as if a Japanese poet had suddenly expressed a profound loathing for the sight of moonrise over the Inland Sea. Some Far Eastern experts at once suspected all manner of guile behind the Japanese words. It was suggested that Japan was jockeying for a peace with Chiang Kaishek, preferably for one which would bind him to join Japan in war on the Chinese Communists...