Word: thralldom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could not transfer her administrative responsibility to an international syndicate, it was imperative we should give evidence that we welcomed third-party interest and third-party judgment and the fullest cooperation in the colonial field." To that, Liberal James Armand de Rothschild snapped: "We are not fighting against the thralldom of the Central European powers to submit after the war to any tyranny on the part of Pan American Airways: nor ... to hand over our colonies in lieu of Lend-Lease...
Three kinds of defeat were conceivable: 1) total defeat, the Red army smashed, all Russia overrun; 2) defeat ending in a negotiated peace such as Brest-Litovsk, which in 1918 left a Russia nominally independent but under Germany's economic thralldom; 3) partial defeat, with the Red army retreating behind the Urals and European Russia's people and resources abandoned to the Axis, at least for the present. The first possibilities seemed remote enough to be ruled out. The third was a real threat. Loss of European Russia would mean these things to the other United Nations...