Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Direct Action. As a toughened-up career diplomat (his wife knitted socks with a revolver at her side while he dug air-raid shelters in Addis Ababa), trouble-wise Envoy Engert knows the Axis technique of penetration and disruption. He also knows that Afghanistan's 245,000-square-mile "kingdom of tumult" is the doorway through which all the land armies of history have fought their way to the riches of India...
...sseldorf. Never before had the factories and communications of Germany and France taken such thumpings so closely repeated. There were no more 1,000-plane raids on single objectives. But there were times when 1,000 planes were banging at different Axis targets. And on the main objectives, the concentration of power was greater than ever before. In a raid on Düsseldorf, less than 700 bombers, by the British account, hammered the Rhineland's great (pop. 539,905) heavy-industry workshop (steel, tools, big guns). But the percentage of four-motored bombers, and probably their over...
...machines more than 600 bombers dumped their loads-first tens of thousands of fire bombs, then high explosives shatteringly climaxed by 4,000-lb. "block busters." Two nights later the bombers gave Hamburg more of the horrible same in the pit that was still burning from the first raid...
Saarbrücken. Next night it was Saarbrücken, steel and coal center in the lower Saar basin, 300 miles from Britain's coast. The raid was lighter than the searing blows struck on Hamburg, but the Air Ministry put the bombers in the hundreds...
...Cockney Charlie Chaplin. The small but vocal Communist Party, which hitherto has stuck by the Churchill all-out war policy, scattered second-front leaflets and chalked up signs all over London. A workers' band in black & red uniforms perched on the top of the Square's air-raid shelter and played the International and God Save the King. Ten munitions workers, claiming to represent 4,000 others, presented a second-front petition to No. 10 Downing Street. Ex-President Eduard Benes of ex-Czecho-Slovakia urged an immediate second front in the hope of obtaining peace "within...