Word: resistant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year and a half in prison, and last month a second would-be Führer named Robert Tobler, whose party is called the National Front, was arrested on suspicion of espionage. Last week the Swiss Government warned its citizens to disregard any purported "official" orders not to resist invaders: Switzerland would resist any invader...
...cannot resist the conviction," Professor Cross concluded, "that, apart from the British inefficiency, Hitler's chief assets at the present moment are the Johnson Act and the isolationist temper of a majority of our own people. The one tangible political gain from the present American attitude is that it at least keeps the Japanese quiet...
...Elijah Jones. But Mr. Green did not return the usual answer: he allowed that he smoked. Bishop Jones thereupon barred him from the conference. Said the Bishop: "If a man cannot free himself of the spell of some little inanimate object like a cigaret, how could he expect to resist a real temptation...
...hardly exaggerating. In a recently published article, Elliott answers with a grim negative the question, "Can America Risk Isolation?" His arguments for a more vigorous defense of Uncle Sam's selfish international interests are at once the most compelling and the most treacherous which the American people must resist in their fight to stay out of World...
...starry-eyed and reciting poetry -- Professor Elliott's case for intervention is extremely dangerous. We are making the mistake made by the British at Munich, he says, and if we allow the force to disorder a victory in Europe, we will soon be driven to resist that force in Brazil or somewhere in what was left of the British Empire." The English navy is essential to the maintenance of peace in the Far East...