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...Good Will. Above the heavy tread of nations on the march, above the staccato uproar of the battlefields, only a few men of peace were heard...
Some ten yards from the bank the left tread of the rear tank climbed out of the treadway. The tank teetered for a fraction of a second, then the pontoons shifted. With treads still grinding and motor roaring, the tank plunged off the submerging treadway into the river, sank in a swirl of bubbling water. Almost on top of it plunged the tank ahead, down into the river out of sight...
...snappish war lord (1941). Bombast and ostentatious health fade from Mussolini's naked dome after the debacle in Greece. From the present's point of view, Laval looks untrustworthy from the start. Irony stalks beside Winston Churchill and Admiral Darlan as they review French sailors together. The tread of marching armies forecasts the kind of fight they will make later on-the Germans, thudding, dour, professional; the Russians, massive, resolute, rough; the Italians, light, out-of-step, a little too gay, a little silly...
...meantime WMC is getting its plans all set, hoping against hope that it will not really become necessary to get as tough as its proposed law will allow. It plans to tread softly-but it wants to carry a big enough stick...
Rushing in where more eminent scholars had feared to tread, Renner undertook to translate the Atlantic Charter and other "noble statements" by amateurs (i.e., statesmen and political thinkers)-into a map. Amateurs were astounded at the result. His geopolitical Europe was divided into nine big nations, with Axis Germany and Italy left apparently as strong as the victorious United Nations themselves...