Word: threatenings
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...republics of South America, which, like the U. S., won their independence from Europe by revolutions, are jealous of their freedom. Last week, unlike the U. S., they were wide-awake to the dangers that seemed to threaten it. Mussolini's cynical declaration of war had been all that was needed to stir Latin America...
...them fume and threaten; the right to insult was given us under the constitution. Let them howl in protest; we know it is all propaganda. Let them attack the freedom of our press; we shall defend it to the last. We shall never forsake our unbiased, unfettered press which alone can keep our heads above the maclstrom of distortion and infamy...
...transport planes capable of ferrying almost one division per hour of regular infantry across the 130-mile median distance from the European to the British lowlands. But the full power of the invading troops-armored equipment and artillery-would have to go in surface transports. British mines threaten these, so before the parachutists take off Phase 2 of the German plan would be minesweeping. Several narrow channels through the minefields might be swept in one dark night. The Nazi minesweepers would be guarded by swift, shallow-draft motor torpedo boats. Light units of the British Fleet would face a test...
...Suffolk as a base for the G. E. F. because "the Great Ouse, which flows into the Wash, and a number of streams flowing into the Blackwater estuary . . . make the peninsula into a regular island, which provides an invading army with safe and roomy quarters from which it can threaten London, which is quite close and without natural defenses on that side-and also the industrial Midlands...
...sure they were marked for early Nazification. It took three days last week for a great German force to move through Dresden, reputedly on the way to take up positions in the Reich's Slovak Protectorate from which to invade Hungary or Rumania. Other German forces massed to threaten Yugoslavia, and in the big hotels of Vienna anyone who dropped into conversation with a German officer was confidently assured, "We don't know at just what moment but we are going to march...