Word: waited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...power in all the countries bordering the eastern Mediterranean collapses. Last week the enemy was clearly developing a huge strategy designed to flank Suez. It was hard to tell whether the super-parenthesis being formed through Libya and Egypt was stalled or just pausing; probably it was pausing to wait for the ripe hour. And on the other flank in Iraq, using the old Hitlerian devices of politics, fears, racial hatred, the enemy was nibbling, nibbling...
Estimates are difficult, but all in all, this country with cooperation abroad might be able to contribute two million tons to the British during the coming year. Washington need not wait for Gallup to O.K, any convoy system before making this aid effective. Not an American citizen is asked to serve abroad for Britain. All that is necessary is that we serve the interests of United States' defense more thoroughly, and within the limits of the Lend-Lease Bill...
...Britain fell, Argentines knew that they must choose between Germany and the U.S. But Argentines also knew that the decision could not wait until the war was decided. Each new move of the U.S. toward war brought more & more un comfortable pressure on Argentina to choose - and choose...
From Budapest, after a dead silence of 19 days, Chicago Tribune and New York Daily News Correspondent Sam Brewer cabled a story of his escape from Yugoslavia. "Now I know how it feels to wait for a firing squad," he began. His adventures started on his way to Belgrade when a train dumped him out ten miles outside the city. Against a black cloud over the town wheeled the Nazi dive-bombers. Correspondent Brewer, guided by flames, trudged on alone with pack and typewriter toward the city. In the deserted, fire-drenched, shattered streets, stumbling through splintered glass...
...mean the passive defense of which the Maginot, Mannerheim and Metaxas Lines are the tragic symbols. Passive defense, he claims, is one of the things that destroyed France, came near to destroying England. The U.S. and its Latin American allies must not just sit tight behind the oceans and wait to be coventrized. Hemisphere defense must be aggressive defense. It must base itself on the British bastion as long as that bastion can hold out. This means continued aid to Britain without stint, but also without skimping vital U.S. needs...