Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What Next? The Germans would have liked to know what General Alexander was going to do next. Whatever it was, Field Marshal Kesselring's armies seemed in poor position to stop him. Kesselring had 18 or 19 front-line divisions in Italy, many of which were badly mauled last week. He had practically no reserves which were not already committed. His troops still fought and fought bitterly: they were a long way from demorilization...
...idol, old Marshal Pétain, himself a rebel in his younger days, dismissed it all as "witticisms." De Gaulle got his colonelcy at a reasonably early age (47), but that was poor comfort. Just before the Germans fell upon France, he wrote one last memorandum, warning of the danger in trusting to the forests around Sedan in lieu of proper defenses. Nobody paid attention. Frustrated, agonizingly sure of what was to happen, equally sure that he might have saved France, Charles de Gaulle went into battle...
...that there can be any serious objection in these sanguinary days to a certain amount of preventive and exemplary killing. . . . There is a long list of sane men, torturers, sadists and murderers, who should be tried and marked down for execution and given no quarter. But not this poor, crazy Austrian imbecile...
...Beatrice Webb. "She went down to the poor as the saints do; I come up from the poor in a state of flaming rebellion, most blasphemous and unsaintly. Beatrice wanted to socialize the ruling classes and make them do their duty. I wanted to destroy them. Now they are destroying themselves...
Yugoslavia's youthful King Peter II, exiled in London, had two long conversations with Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Then Peter fired his Government. Prime Minister Bozhidar Punch. War Minister Draja Mihailovich lost their jobs. But Peter's royal prospects remained poor...