Word: onslaught
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other big and little wigs in the path of Hitler's onslaught did not fare so well...
...former is the case, if the Allies this very minute are succumbing before a German onslaught which is to reach victory in a few months or less, then America is helpless to prevent it. For our forces as they now stand are defensive. We are already doing all we can by shipping planes, as fast as possible, under the cash-and-carry clause to the Allies. Our fleet will not help, for the British have theirs almost intact. What they could use, of course, is a million men. But our nation does not have them ready to offer immediately. They...
First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill, in his weekend radioration, expressed this attitude neatly: "It is no part of our policy to seek a war with Russia." And in the next breath: "The Soviet Government, in their onslaught against the heroic Finns, have exposed to the whole world the ravages which Communism makes upon the fibre of any nation which falls a victim to that deadly mental and moral disease. This exposure of the Russian Army and Russian Air Force has astonished the world and has rightly heartened all the States that dwell upon the Russian border...
Alarmed Vandenbergers begged their chief to make a stand against this onslaught- one speech, only one. But the Senator stood pat on his let-it-come-to-me position, wrote to friends: ". . . The Presidential decision this year is too desperately important. . . . The choice of the convention should flow from the deliberative judgment of the American people and not from the transient impulse of a campaign tour...
...gamble was a dangerous one. Gallipoli taught Mr. Churchill the costs of a troop-landing on unknown coasts. Britain could ill violate Scandinavian neutrality while posing as the enemy of international banditry. And an Allied expedition of at best 80,000 slodiers would hardly have withstood a Russo-German onslaught. As for Sweden, her unwillingness to serve as Lebensraum for frustrated World War II is certainly understandable...