Word: obtained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Possibly this meant that the Nazis had chewed up two great segments of the Russian Army and were about to obtain both their central and southern objectives. If so, the Russians' decision to stand and fight, rather than retreat as they did in Napoleon's day, might well have led to a ghastly, crucial loss of men and materiel...
...Sunday morning he had no need to envy the German dictator. Even if Germany was to conquer Russia with ease-as it might-Hitler now had to fight for Russia's resources-to fight for necessary resources which up to that moment the world had believed Germany could obtain without fighting...
...position, the same interests and entertain the same political views. China is not Japan's real enemy in the present incident. In reality Japan is fighting Britain and America. In the past we purposely affected ignorance of the hostility of the Anglo-Saxons because we were trying to obtain various necessaries from them. It has become clear that we cannot execute our military operations in China by means of supplies from America and Britain. The first thing we now are required to do is to carry out our southward advance. When Europe and Asia are placed under...
When this "convoy" system has been set up, next projected step is in air-transport system, which ought to be far more efficient and far speedier than uncertain Chinese gasoline, mule-and coolie-propelled transport. Chinese in Washington are desperately trying to obtain priorities for 24 U.S. transport planes, which will operate from Myitkyina, Burma, the railhead north of Mandalay, to a point two-thirds of the way up the Burma Road...
...only premise on which a war of successive brilliant withdrawals can be fought with any hope of eventual victory is that the withdrawers should inflict great casualties on the enemy and suffer small ones. In Crete that premise did not obtain...