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Word: quellers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1941-1941
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...soothing: "Let us not blind ourselves to the gravity of the situation or the seriousness of the task that awaits us. Let us frankly admit that so far the Japanese have been extremely successful." The Japanese were alarmingly successful: 1) Britain's great 19th-Century warrior and native-queller, Field Marshal Sir Frederick Roberts, once said that the history of the world would be decided at Singapore. By this week the Japanese had come within 300 miles of that decision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: World at Stake? | 12/29/1941 | See Source »

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