Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germany, for there work stopped on all prewar naval construction save submarines and perhaps some destroyers. So the U. S. steadily enlarges upon the 5:3 ratio with Japan; but it is not yet able to defend Asia, needs only one half its present fleet in the Pacific to prevent a western descent on the U. S. . . . WM. H. DAVIS...
Hopping-off place for Graziani's attack is Tobruch, Italy's coastal base near the Egyptian border, protected by nearby air bases at El Aden and El Gubbi. These three spots have been targets for incessant British air raids, to prevent an expeditionary force from getting organized. Last week torpedo-carrying Fairey Swordfish planes of the Naval Air Service climaxed these attacks by striking transports, supply ships and a tanker in Tobruch harbor...
...deal made with either of them can be long relied on. At best the U. S. can hardly hope for more than to induce one of them to join it in a three-handed game, in which two of the players looking after their individual interest would try to prevent the third player, Germany, from gaining a commanding lead...
...British soldiers or let the Royal Navy reoccupy its old bases at Berehaven, Lough Swilly and Cobh. The British Army massed troops to rush across the Irish Sea when the hour struck, and R. N. calmly announced new minefields from Scotland to Iceland to Greenland, to prevent the Germans sweeping around to Ireland from the north...
...that with the enemy in control of the entire European coast from North Cape to the Pyrenees, the Germans might make simultaneous descents on various parts of the British Isles, including Eire. Initial landings of small units of 1,000 men or so the British did not hope to prevent entirely. But their vigilance was aimed at confining such landings to the beachheads until the British Fleet could come up to cut off the landing parties from all reinforcements except...