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Apparently the British did not dare to attack Billancourt. Was not Admiral Darlan awaiting just such a provocation to bring the French Fleet* within the sphere of collaboration? Of course the British had broadcast warnings to the workers of Billancourt that they might bomb the district. But that, thought the Germans, was probably only a clumsy British attempt to wage a war of nerves...
...Balkans. He had been mayor of Vienna when the Nazis made the Jews clean the streets, liked to call himself an old revolutionary. Of Nazi aims in Rumania, Dr. Neubacher told the Countess: "We have only one aim, and that is to keep quiet in the raw-material sphere...
...most significant work of the Council will be in the intercollegiate sphere. The aim of the projected magazine is to unite all college groups working in the post war-field into a concerted force for a just world order...
...They must take daring and frequent bites into the periphery of the Japanese bombing sphere. This they did, with dash and daring, in the Marshall and Gilbert Islands...
...beginning. He wrote in 1909 (in 1941 he would probably add air battles wherever he referred to naval battles): "The advocates of naval expansion have . . . given a wrong impression to the public, not as to the necessity of a navy, but as to the accomplishment of enterprises beyond its sphere. Neither now nor in the future will international conflicts be determined by naval engagements. In some instances naval victories may produce conditions that will tend to hasten the conclusion of a war, but ... to affect, to cripple or destroy a nation in wartime can only be done by injuring...