Word: vitale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...important and spectacular campaign was against an estimated 30,000 enemy troops on Borneo. It was also their most successful. Under the Corps command of dapper, dashing Lieut. General Sir Leslie ("Holy Terror") Morshead, onetime schoolmaster and hero of the siege of Tobruk, the 7th Division had secured the vital Balikpapan area within three weeks of its invasion. Last week the 7th beat down bitter resistance to take another first-rate military prize: the Sambodja oil field, 28 miles northeast of Balikpapan and one of the three major producing areas of eastern Borneo...
...Velasco, high-minded and still "impractical," is trying to revive his country, looted for centuries by "practical" rulers. But his view of financing has not changed. Recently, in dire need of money for vital public works, he noted the $6,500,000 which the Central Bank of Ecuador had earmarked to back the country's currency. "It's so simple," he was heard to say. "The money is there. No one is using it. Just take it from one book and put it in another...
...from this new phenomenon that the enemy would quit when he saw his situation was hopeless. It was already hopeless and he did not quit. But many a soldier and sailor was ready to say that, at least to a few Japs, the U.S. had managed to communicate a vital message: surrender does not mean extinction, or even the loss of soldierly honor...
...Minister Winston Churchill testily: "Why trouble me about this business now? Can't you wait?" Wavell said no. Britain had pledged her word that India should have self-government when the war ended. Britain must keep her word. If she was to win Indian good will, it was vital to break the three-year political deadlock at once. The situation must not be allowed to drift dangerously while momentous events brewed in Asia. Said Wavell grimly: without a new offer backed by the Government he would not return to India...
...Tories, with Churchill's war achievement to trade on, were reconciled to losses but confident of victory. Labor, committed to a drastic socialist program, was sure of gains, uncertain of victory. Liberals hoped at most to snatch a vital balance of power. To a world anxiously inquiring: "Stands Britain where she did?'1, British voters would soon give an answer. Presumably it would...