Word: munitioneer
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"The Government must resign. The Australian crisis is urgent and the Government is only dragging us deeper into it. . . . Instead of defending Australian shores many Australian troops are stranded in the Middle East, with their lines of communication threatened. Others are stationed in England where there still exists an army...
Ripostes by R. A. F. to Germany's air blows were delivered incessantly upon military, industrial and communications centres all across Naziland to Berlin, northeast to Bergen and Stavanger. Airports, munition dumps and-most ominous-concentrations of barges along the Lowland and French coasts, were targets attacked even in...
> George VI, target for the first time last fortnight of direct Nazi press attacks, congratulated his troops and their French allies upon their valiant retreat from Dunkirk, visited an arms factory to observe munition-making gains, fired a target full of creditable holes with a Bren gun.
He favors aid to the Chinese in their fight for independence. Loans to China should be renewed, and the Administration should exert pressure on munition manufacturers to stop sending supplies to Japan, he believes.
"To talk about the munition industry dragging this country into war is incredible fiction. . . .This country went into the World War to vindicate its rights on the high seas, and now to relinquish these rights through fear of Hitlerism is to dishonor our dead. . . . The proposition is utterly destitute of...