Word: spheres
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sunk a British submarine in the eastern Mediterranean last week, a 15,000-ton British supply ship bound for Malta, and to have bombed out the Malta torpedo factory. Italy boasted: "Great Britain's naval domination of the Mediterranean has been replaced by Italian air supremacy in this sphere." Meantime, British communiques clarified what happened last fortnight south of Crete where Italian airmen claimed they sank a British cruiser on July 8. The cruiser was the Gloucester (9,300 tons) and her commander, Captain Frederick Rodney Garside, was killed, but she was able to join next...
...clarify their platform. Every plank was new as fresh-cut pine. They agreed to strengthen ties with the Axis; to shake up Japan's diplomatic personnel (i. e., inject a few chauvinists) ; to establish a "zone of stability in East Asia" (i. e., Japan's sphere of exclusive domination) ; to re-examine Japanese-Soviet relations, with a view to possible rapprochement; to end "reliance" on the U. S. and Great Britain; to leave political-party members out of the Cabinet, at least until the new nationalist single party, which Prince Konoye has been fostering, comes into being...
...first division of the General Staff is preparation of plans and policies for personnel from recruiting to discharge. Its sphere includes Army pay, promotion, regulations, recreation, religion. Boss of G-1 is handsome, polished 55-year-old Brigadier General William Edgar Shedd Jr., a coast artilleryman who has served in Hawaii and the Philippines, taught mathematics at West Point, directed the A. E. F.'s Heavy Artillery School in France...
Russia's Sphere. Russia was preoccupied with consolidating her own position to the east of Hitler's Europe. On the heels of her occupation of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, those three countries set up left-wing Governments that looked like steppingstones to complete sovietization. Hotly Russia's official news agency Tass denied that her Baltic grab was aimed against Germany. Tass said only 18 or 20 divisions, not the 100 reported from London, had moved into the Baltic States. Germany took the occupation calmly. Germany's calm was doubtless real, since last year's deals...
...people of the U. S. in the event that Hitler's drive to the west produces a Nazi victory. Either his influence will invade the Western Hemisphere to such an extent that the U. S. A. will find itself actually fighting the German juggernaut in our own sphere of influence; or, in the effort to discourage his stepping into South America, we will be forced to compete with his armament production...