Word: threshold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tunisia men of Germany, Italy, the U.S., the British and French Empires were fighting. They were there not for the sake of Tunisia; no one on that terrain was defending his doorstep-not directly. But Tunisia is a threshold of Europe. Every Italian and every German on the battle fields of Tunisia knew that each day he could prolong the defense of Tunisia was postponing by one more day the Allied invasion of Europe. And for the Allies, for men like Lieut. General Patton, there was urgency to destroy this stubborn Tunisian delaying force in time to make...
...military men of the U.S., 1942 offered them few opportunities for great achievement. General Eisenhower's able occupation of North Africa only placed him on the threshold of his real test. Douglas MacArthur, whose brilliant skill and courage raised him to the rank of hero while he fought an inevitably losing fight, still lacked the means to win the crown of a great victory. Outstanding among Americans for accomplishment in battle stood the name of Admiral William Halsey, who, not once but again & again, took his task force into swift encounters against the Japs to deal them telling blows...
After a year of wartime publishing and a shift in policy, the editors of "Threshold" have decided to devote all of one issue to a single type of subject matter. In terms of the magazine's own credo, its latest number is concerned with the shape of "the new world order." Under that rubric the organ of International Student Service has gathered both one of the finest and one of the poorest articles it has ever printed...
...None of "Threshold's" other articles reaches the standard of Professor Laski's contribution. Next in rank stands Joseph P. Lash's "When Johnny Comes Marching Home," as estimate of the role of this war's veterans in future national politics. Lash concludes that soldiers' ideas are basically reflections of those of the nation as a whole, and that the only permanent influence of military service will be stronger attitudes of cooperation and respect for other peoples and races. Neither of these attitudes, however, belongs exclusively either to New Dealers or Old Guardsmen, and forecasting concrete political beliefs...
LONDON--Powerful Allied forces swept tonight to the threshold of Tunisia, strategic protectorate over which a struggle for control of the skies already was raging, after driving past the Algerian port of Bone where American reinforcements were landing...