Word: vassal
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...possession . . . made in Ger many by Hitler's Government - by the planners of the New World Order. It is a map of South America and a part of Central America, as Hitler proposes to reorganize it. ... The geographical experts of Berlin . . . have divided South America into five vassal States, bringing the whole continent under their domination...
...York's Governor Herbert Lehman, enlisted in the R.C.A.F. in Ottawa. The U.S. Army Air Corps had turned him down as a husband and father. ∙∙ Gertrude Lawrence turned down a medal the Finnish Government offered her for Finnish Relief Fund work, because Finland "is now the vassal of Nazi Germany." ∙∙Of wartime writing, Writer Somerset Maugham, 67, said: "I've reached the conviction that an author may do his country more good just by going on and writing as though there were no war." ∙∙Of writers and Army life, Writer John Roberts...
Then he turned the full force of his scorn on Germany's partner: "This whipped jackal, Mussolini, who to save his own skin made all Italy a vassal State of Hitler's Empire, comes frisking up at the side of the German tiger with yelpings not only of appetite . . . but even of triumph." A realist as always when he meets reversals, Churchill minced no words in describing Britain's peril. "You know I never try to make out that defeats are victories. . . . It is certain that fresh dangers . . . may come upon us in the Mediterranean...
...proposal overlooks, a primary objective of a blockade--to force Germany and her vassal states to return again to the production of food instead of building up the German war machine...
Victory. "It is against the nature of things that the Fuhrer should be able to continue to overrun one sturdy and independent nation after another; declare it to be German whether it is or not, and expect it to remain a vassal State. . . . [British sea power] and France's wonderful army . . . [will] bring victory...