Word: threats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...understatement. As a ten-year cover-to-cover reader, I can recall without referring to your files that you did your very best to depict the seriousness of the international situation not only after Pearl Harbor and before Bataan. You outlined with a dark editorial pencil the sinister threat of the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo axis to the democracies in general and the U.S. in particular long before Pearl Harbor...
...German counterpart, no leader had the impossible alternatives that lay before Shimada. He could come out and fight, hurl his whole force against the U.S. fleet. The result would be destruction. Or he could stand on his one thrust at the enemy and keep his fleet in being, a threat that might never be used but that would have to be reckoned with. Or he could spend his fleet piecemeal in harassing action, postponing the day of defeat. His choice was between bad, worse and worst...
...though to underscore the threat, carriers, detached from Spruance's Fifth Fleet, steamed up to the Bonins. Their planes circled over the Port Lloyd anchorage used by Commodore Matthew C. Perry in 1853, then dived to pock the runways of Peel Island (Chichi Jima) which Perry had vainly urged the U.S. to take for a coaling station...
More recently the Bishop has fought against Boston's rampant anti-Semitism (TIME, Nov. 1), calling it "not only a threat to Jewish liberty, but to Protestant liberty, and Catholic liberty, too." He even persuaded the late William Cardinal O'Connell to join with him in condemning antiSemitism. It was the first time the 84-year-old Boston Cardinal ever signed such a statement with a Protestant...
...that the Germans have used their secret weapon--a winged bomb, pilotless and probably pet-propelled--the British are tackling the problem of countering it with far more confidence than they had when they set about the job of finding an answer to the night-bombing threat of four years ago." N. Y. Times, June...