Word: vassal
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...half a dozen points on the Dnieper, they can outflank most of the German strongholds on the Dnieper line. > From Melitopol and the Caucasus they will threaten the Crimea. > From the Crimea, if & when it falls, they will again dominate the Black Sea, and once again Germany's vassal states of Rumania and Bulgaria will be open to a direct attack...
Among the many people who do not like Captain Cunningham-Reid is Commander Oliver S. Locker-Lampson, M.P., who organized the Blue Shirts in 1931 to "clear out the Reds." When Britain broke relations with Russia and the Blue Shirts faded, the Commander announced that Britain had become a "vassal" of the U.S. The future looked blue, he said, unless Britain could "build up beneath her flag an Empire, currency and credit to conquer and save the world." Among the many people who do not like Commander Locker-Lampson is Captain Cunningham-Reid...
...four-motored bombers swung into Norway, turned up with 75 heavy bombers over Trondheim, where the Tirpitz and Prinz Eugen are holed up. Under a bright bomber's moon, the raiders went after another target -a big submarine base just completed after two years of work by Danish vassal labor. Few days later the returns came in from agents in Sweden: two years had been wasted. The base was reported a ruin...
...harked back fondly to the ancien regime. It was monarchical, clerical, aristocratic. The Marshal wanted to expunge the memory of the French Revolution. But while he felt that French totalitarianism depended largely on the success of Nazi totalitarianism, he did not want his neofeudal France to be a neo-vassal state of Germany's. He kept making this clear to Germany with his creaking stubbornness about the sanctity of the French Fleet and the African colonies...
...expected that the Japanese would set up a vassal Government in Manila, put at its head a puppet President. Who? Not Manuel Quezon: even though Quezon in the past has shown no antipathy toward the Japs, Quezon is now committed to a last-ditch defense. And not Sergio Osmeña: the lean, calm, white-haired Vice President of the Philippines is half Chinese...