Word: threatens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...acts historians blame the creation of the Triple Entente, giving Germany enemies on both sides. Yet history has shown that a deeper, more instinctive fear of the Germans had led Europe always to oppose them. Under the Kaiser, Germany once more swelled with power and pride; once more she threatened to burst her boundaries. Under Wilhelm, Germany built a mighty Navy to threaten Britain, a mightier Army to threaten France and Russia, a mighty economy which threatened to follow the Kaiser's pet Berlin-Bagdad Railway to domination of the Middle East (see p. 22). The Triple Entente...
...been Chief of Staff of the Fascist Militia since 1939 and for seven years before that was Secretary General of the Fascist Party. By removing him from his post (nothing was said about what had become of him) Benito Mussolini got rid of one more power which might threaten the power of the Duce. Before Starace, many an old-time Fascist had been relegated to oblivion or death: Hero Italo Balbo to the Governor Generalship of Libya and then to mysterious death in his airplane; Soldiers Pietro Badoglio and Rodolfo Graziani to retirement; Loudmouthpiece Roberto Farinacci to an unknown fate...
Union leaders still had to negotiate a contract. They predicted that they might have to threaten a walkout before the Ford management would come to terms...
...declared that the U.S. was ready to fight for democracy (see p. 13), but Hitler spoke one long sentence that sounded as if he already knew what Franklin Roosevelt would say: "When today the democratic agitators of a country to which the German people have never done any harm . . . threaten to choke the National Socialist people's State . . . with the force of their capitalistic system and of their material production, then there can be only one answer: the German people will never again experience such a year as 1918, but will rise to still higher achievements in all branches...
...first three of these threaten Turkey. Samothrace and Lemnos can be used to choke the Dardanelles, and Mytilene lies very close to Turkey's west coast. The others threaten British shipping in the whole Aegean. Britain can have no power north of Crete now except naval power, and the occupation of these islands-and probable occupation of more later-threatens to clear Britain out of the whole region...