Word: slaughtered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even on the grounds of realistic, hardheaded self-interest, he had no triumph to record. He was Man of 1939 for the deal he made with Hitler-a deal which sold out the foes of Naziism, plunged the rest of the world into mutual slaughter so that Russia might be the sole survivor of the cataclysm. The day last June when Hitler turned on him, it became clear that all Stalin had bought was a mess of pottage. His great coup of World War II proved in 1941 a grim joke at the expense of Joseph Stalin...
Died. Judge John Slaughter Candler, 80, last of Georgia's famed Candler (Coca-Cola) brothers; in Atlanta. Best-known of the family were Methodist Bishop Warren A., Coca-Cola King Asa G. Judge John retired from Georgia's Supreme Court bench...
Chard visited the Philippines as one stop of the East Indies tour he made from 1937 to 1938 after graduating from college. Because he stayed on the island several months and found its peoples friendly he is continually amused to read of the "slaughter caused by bloodthirsty, ferocious looking pagans," there...
...that enemy is ready to renounce a wicked leadership. And in this case, the cost of such mental and moral deficit (responsibility for which must lie heavily on our universities as well as on Washington) must be the ruin of Europe in long drawn out war and the endless slaughter of our youth. The best of England has no such desire. Can we not summon up in ourselves an idea of a just settlement and an independent will to promote it before this catastrophe overtakes mankind. W. E. Hocking, Alford Professor of Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Policy...
Yugoslavia. Serbian Chetniks kept up their wild guerrilla fight against Adolf Hitler and Ante Pavelitch, his Croatian stooge. Yugoslav rebels warned the Nazi commander in Belgrade that they would slaughter 650 German prisoners if he killed any more Yugoslav patriots...