Word: inners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Readers may wish that the book contained less about Author Strasser, more about the activities of his Black Front, more about the political orgies of the Nazi inner circle, less about their personal debauches...
...less popular than all this bon-hommousness was Mr. Churchill's decision two days later to call the efficient little' Minister of Aircraft Production, Lord Beaverbrook, into his inner War Cabinet. The official announcement said that "for the time being Lord Beaverbrook will continue to be Minister of Aircraft Production," intimating clearly that other Cabinet changes would follow. Most Britons hoped that this meant that Lord Beaverbrook was being eased into ailing Neville Chamberlain's vaguely defined position as Lord President of the Council...
Author Stoddard, whose Rising Tide of Color made a stir 20 years ago, went into Germany last autumn, stayed three months as a special correspondent. His study of the Nazi State through its lower-middle-class functionaries, its multiplicity of iron, dogma-drenched organizations, its remorseless inner circle of lost, clever minds conveys the enormity of that revolution all the more vividly because Stoddard was not merely graveled; he was impressed...
...Navy is no less hard at work at its inner defenses along the Inland Passage. For if Kodiak and Dutch Harbor are well defended an invader is likely to make his first thrust there. With a toe hold in Alaska's Panhandle he might end the supply lines of the northern bases while he strengthened his position for raiding against northwest U. S. Big Navy base in the Panhandle will be at Sitka, but other U. S. bases are being set up at Juneau and Ketchikan. A few weeks ago the Indian inhabitants of Metlakatla, on U. S.-owned...
This immemorial gateway from the Orient to the Mediterranean has an inner and an outer gate. The inner gate is Port Said, which is the focus of British strategy throughout the region. The outer gate is the island of Perim at the entrance to the Gulf of Aden. In World War I the British found their enemies, the Turks, in Asia and drove eastward and northward from the Canal into Arabia, Palestine and Syria. In World War II, when Italy declared war in June, the British found their enemies on the other side of the gate and faced about...