Word: inners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hard facts of power politics stared them in the face. Their own survival and the inner peace of Poland lay in Russia's hands. Neither Britain nor the U.S. was likely to risk good relations with Russia for a forlorn Polish cause. Before them lay a message from the Polish underground: "We who are fighting the Germans must work with the Russians...
...with America and England, and, as they say, 'to return China into the bosom of East Asia.' They try to buy defeatists, capitulationists and appeasers, acting under the guise of promising the 'independence and sovereignty of China.' They seek indefatigably to sharpen China's inner discord and arouse civil...
Democratic Talk. For China's inner discord, War and the Working Class blamed not the Chinese Communists but Chiang Kaishek. "For years a great part of Chiang's best troops, headed by the most experienced generals and officers, have been 'guarding' China from the 'Communists' . . . who are waging a continuous, active, partisan war against the greater portion of the combined Japanese and puppet Chinese troops...
...this week Shimada had to face the disconcerting fact that he, too, was a colossal failure. Shimada had met the U.S. fleet, tentatively and ineptly, in waters uncomfortably close to home between the Marianas and the inner bastion of the Philippines...
This week Shimada had to make a new set of plans to stave off the Americans, who certainly intend to plow into his inner defenses. Except for his German counterpart, no leader had the impossible alternatives that lay before Shimada. He could come out and fight, hurl his whole force against the U.S. fleet. The result would be destruction. Or he could stand on his one thrust at the enemy and keep his fleet in being, a threat that might never be used but that would have to be reckoned with. Or he could spend his fleet piecemeal in harassing...