Word: prolongers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enemy fighting someone else, the embargo was equally useful. Closure of the Indo-China and Burma supply routes put an end to direct U. S. aid to China, which for three years had impaled 1,125,000 Japanese soldiers and most of the Imperial Fleet. Only other way to prolong the deadlock was to end direct aid to Japan...
When all the nuances and morals were brushed away, alternative U. S. programs for the Far East, he realized, fell into three general heads: 1) crush Japan; 2) make a deal with Japan; 3) prolong the conflict as long as possible. What really distressed Yosuke Matsuoka was that last week's quasi-embargo could be used, paradoxically, to further any one of the three programs, if & when the U. S. State Department ever should make up its mind to pick...
...British action in seizing part of the French Fleet. The sudden U. S. agitation about the Monroe Doctrine and a realization that command of the Atlantic was vital to U. S. security confirmed this view. Alone, said Major Eliot, the U. S. Fleet cannot control the Atlantic, must therefore prolong British resistance and if possible keep the British Fleet in being. On these tenets he laid down in the New York Herald Tribune a nine-point program of immediate action...
...least to the extent of complete stoppage of vital exports to Germany. Russia would like to let the present belligerents wear each other out and then communize them. At present the war is too one-sided, might end too soon. It is to Russia's interest to prolong it by helping the Allies...
...hands of assassins. But neither public surprise nor superstition dampened Mitsumasa Yonai's confidence. He felt sure that by inventing a few metaphors neat as chopsticks, by continuing to mouth nebulous phrases about the New Order and completion of the China Incident (taking steps meanwhile to prolong it), by playing ball with the Army-in short, by emulating most of his recent predecessors-he would make as good a Premier as the next fellow...