Word: thought
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Churchill thought Britain's naval superiority would soon drive the Germans out of Norway. But though Britain commanded the high seas, the Luftwaffe controlled the air. And though Britain did land nearly 25,000 Allied troops in Norway, they were poorly equipped and had to be evacuated within weeks, as were King Haakon, his family and his gold. Said Churchill: "We have been completely outwitted...
Just as Hitler had thought that Britain would give up after the fall of France, he now thought that nightly bombing would make the English rise in revolt against Churchill's pursuit of the war. (It was a miscalculation that the Allies were to repeat in their subsequent bombing of German cities.) Londoners instead took pride in their ability to endure the blitz, to spend long hours in the subway bomb shelters, to put out the fires and go on with their lives. "I saw many flags flying from staffs," Edward R. Murrow reported to America one night over...
...major dissenters were the German commanders who feared British naval and aerial supremacy, and that was why Hitler called off the invasion. But the Germans thought Britain was virtually defeated whether Hitler invaded or not, and a number of historians agree. "Even if he didn't invade us, he could have put resources into the war at sea . . . and starved us out," says Howard. "There's very little chance that we would have been able to survive." The strategist B.H. Liddell Hart, in History of the Second World War, applied the term "slow suicide" to Churchill's policy of fighting...
...sure, tossing extra money into the pot without follow-up thought and planning amounts to offering easy applause more than productive partnership. But the relative sum assigned is a symbol of priorities. Is the priority for Poland unchanged? Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki's success may depend on his ability to deal with Poland's economic situation -- quickly. Can the U.S. really afford to let him fail for lack of assistance? It is odd, to say the least, that George Bush appears to have been as comfortable with the Communist status quo as with this historic breakthrough for democracy...
...where we arranged for Portuguese visas for as many Austrians as we could. By that time I was on a list of 49 persons the Nazis had asked the French to hand over. When we arrived at the Spanish frontier, it was closed on order of the Germans. I thought this was the end. But a customs official gave me a sign to follow him, led me behind the customs shed and said, "I know exactly who you are. Have you heard that resistance will continue? A certain General de Gaulle has called on us to continue. I shall leave...