Word: starke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Admiral Harold R. Stark, recently commander of U.S. Naval Forces in Europe (where he was made an honorary Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire), but on Pearl Harbor Day Chief of Naval Operations...
Navy Court of Inquiry. In a long, detailed and milky-mild document, the Navy three-man court made it clear why "Betty" Stark should at least share the blame with Kimmel...
That power is a stark and appalling fact. It will be so appraised in every capital. Liberated Europe, hypersensitive to power, will note it well. Asia, where occidental prestige plummeted after Pearl Harbor and Singapore, will record...
Another newspaper told the Japanese nation even more explicitly that the war was lost: "The only thing left to be done is to think out how to cope with this stark reality. Now it is high time that all of our nation should face reality squarely. Everyone should have his own firmest declaration. War is a reality. Only with the greatest determination can one cope with the reality...
...stark reality is that Japan and the Japanese people now stand at the crossroads of life or death. In this worst national crisis in our history, all the people must strictly guard against the danger of internal split and conflict. . . . Internal confusion is no way of saving the nation from the gravest crisis with which Japan is now confronted...