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...Japan. Our secret service should explore every nook and cranny of Germany and Japan so as to make absolutely impossible the building of parts for planes and rockets and other death-dealing machines in small shops all over the nation, to be assembled in a hurry and used to threaten us. This latter point is most important. I can already hear a blabbermouthed German leader of ten or 15 years from now warning the world that unless Germany is given "living room" she will turn loose the two million rockets she has secretly built and with which she could easily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Letters, Jan. 15, 1945 | 1/15/1945 | See Source »

...equal to our high trust, reverent in the use of freedom, just in the exercise of power, generous in the protection of weakness. . . . Make us ill content with the inequalities of opportunity which still prevail among us. Preserve our Union against all the divisions of race and class which threaten us. ... May the blessing of God Almighty rest upon the whole land. May He give us light to guide us, courage to support us, charity to unite us, now and forever. Amen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Election: The Winner | 11/13/1944 | See Source »

...Germans had put on a brilliant performance in the battle of supply. They ceased to threaten the port of Antwerp last week (see below), but for two months they had stood off the British and Canadians on its approaches. They had ruined Le Havre, Marseille, Salonika. Hundreds of miles behind the main battle line, they still had no less than 100,000 troops in Dunkirk, Saint-Nazaire, La Rochelle, Lorient, the Channel Islands, and Royan (covering Bordeaux). Where German soil was threatened, they fought like wildcats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF GERMANY: The Clutch | 11/13/1944 | See Source »

...final quarter, the Eagles straightened out their damaged plumage and began to threaten for the lead. Freshman

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Squelches Boston College 'T', 13-0 For Fourth Win, Before 43,000 Spectators | 10/10/1944 | See Source »

...Slavs, in vain the depths of hell threaten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BALKANS: Area of Decision | 10/9/1944 | See Source »

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