Word: objects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...military and naval resources to maintain the status quo in the Far East. Australia's Minister for External Affairs Sir Frederick Stewart, the first to deny this, called it "a piece of deliberate propaganda." It was more. It was the start of a Hitlerian campaign against "encirclement." Its object: Singapore...
...that Russia was preparing to drive toward the Persian Gulf. In Iraq Nazi plotters had already unsettled Britain's hold (see p. 37), and Nazi Schemester Franz von Papen appeared to have cowed Turkey into some sort of agreement with the Axis. Egypt awaited a fresh Nazi drive. Object: Suez...
...Henri Philippe Petain demanding the reinstatement of Pierre Laval in the Cabinet. Against U.S. Ambassador Alexander Wilbourne Weddell's warning that the U.S. would do its utmost for Britain, Spain's newspapers started an Axis-inspired campaign against Portugal, hinted that Spain would soon join the Axis. Object: Gibraltar...
Pravda also took the trouble to deny that Germany had put pressure on Russia to sign, stated flatly that the Kremlin had refused an invitation to join the Axis last November. In other words, Russia was playing a lone hand, with the object of keeping out of trouble. If by keeping out of trouble Russia got others into trouble, that would be so much the better...
...member of North Austin Lutheran Church who could not attend the Easter services was Pastor Otterbein himself. He had a stroke in February 1940, is still unable to resume his work. His one object in life is to return, and doctors say some day he can. Only parish activity they now allow him is two pastoral visits a week. A sick man, he makes these to the sick because he can share their suffering. But though he has not conducted a service there for over a year, North Austin Lutheran's attendance has continued to grow under a succession...