Word: threats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...debate, smooth and usually imperturbable Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King was exasperated and beside himself at Opposition tactics. In an ominous tone he snapped: "If we (the Government) cannot get cooperation we shall have to consider our responsibility. . . ." Ears pricked up all over Canada. This sounded like a threat to dissolve the House, which would mean a general election...
Communists in Chungking retort that they: 1) cannot dissolve their armies and submit to Kuomintang military, civil and economic control without a guarantee of their survival as a political party; 2) fight the Japs wherever and whenever possible; 3) live under constant threat from 23 of the best of China's 113 Central Armies plus 45 others in reserve...
...Wehrmacht fought for Pskov with skill and fury: beyond it lay Estonia and Latvia, and then the Baltic, washing Germany's own shores. But not even Pskov's fate worried the Germans as much as the Russian threat to the Vitebsk-Rogachev line, and to Minsk, the kingpin of the German defense system in the north...
...infantry and artillery attacks. Others burrowed through jungle and mountain areas considered, impassable in any kind of weather, trapped the 7th Indian Division by severing its communication lines. At week's end, the 7th Division was still encircled; but the Japs were slowly falling back under a flanking threat from West African troops who had wormed eastward...
...restored (they had been unable even to tell of its denial to them until after the Alexander meeting). But it was a Pyrrhic victory. Before he gave back the radio, the General had made plain that he expected strict adherence to the military line. Over the newsmen was the threat that their stories, censored for fact at the source, would be recensored at Naples to jibe with Army policy. That policy obviously would be to even up the bad with the good, to emphasize the hunky-dory...