Word: threats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...threat of the reddest of red-hot isolationists-Richard J. Lyons, the Chicago Tribune-backed candidate in Illinois -was soundly beaten off by New Dealing Scott Lucas. The only really hard-shell isolationists who won reelection, both more narrowly than expected, were Wisconsin's Republican Alexander Wiley and New Hampshire's Charles W. Tobey...
Averted: A General Election. Temporarily, canny Prime Minister King had avoided a serious threat to his Government and the necessity for an immediate general election. But the matter was not yet at an end. For one thing, he had not yet told the people the story behind Minister Ralston's resignation. Pressed by reporters for the facts, he grumped: "Everything speaks for itself." For another thing, he was now vulnerable to accusations that he was playing politics. By hewing to his no-compulsory-combat policy, he had thrown a hoop around Quebec, enhanced his chances of winning the important...
...Chinese Communists . . . have good armies that are now fighting guerrilla warfare against the Japanese in North China. . . . The Generalissimo regards these armies as the chief threat to his supremacy . . . has made no sincere attempt to arrange at least a truce with them for the duration of the war. ... No diplomatic genius could have overcome the Generalissimo's basic unwillingness to risk his armies in battle with the Japanese...
...then the Japanese plan of encirclement was completely revealed, and "Bull" Halsey had a hard decision to make. He weighed the alternatives, concluded that the newly found northern force was the greatest threat (especially in view of the heavy damage reported done to the central force). Then he acted. His characteristic decision was: attack. He and Mitscher charged north through the night at high speed with most of the fast carrier groups and fast battleships...
...unhappily. From the northwestern Burma town of Tiddim the Japanese in March 1944 had launched a drive against India, 20 miles away. By the time the British captured Tiddim last week and pushed 30 miles farther south to Falam, at least 50,000 Japanese had been slaughtered, and the threat to India was ended...