Word: waited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will not be possible to defend the Philippines. Japan wants French Indo-China and The Netherlands East Indies first, can afford to wait until the Philippines become independent...
...determination of Willkie Club founders ended that plan, sent Wendell Willkie pounding around the U. S., making speeches, meeting the delegates from 25 States. In St. Louis he praised Winston Churchill for making the people no promises when he took office: "It is a tragedy that England had to wait to hear those words until the invader was at her door and her sons were being slaughtered. . . . The curse of democracy today, in the U. S. as well as in Europe, is that everyone has been trying to please the public. Almost nobody ever gets up and says what...
Corsica, which produced Napoleon, who Mussolini insists was Italian, is an objective Italy should have little difficulty achieving. Malta, which belonged to the Knights of St. John before Napoleon took it in 1798, is solid rock and should come harder. Last week she let Corsica wait like a ripe plum, bombed Malta 25 times and laid mine barrages stretching both sides of it to bisect the Mediterranean and divide the enemy warships...
...this was no major conflict, but it was plain that Mussolini's waiting-for-Christmas policy would not work against the British. For anything he takes from them he will have to fight. To their scorn for Italy's passive game, Marshal Badoglio has a pat answer: they also serve who only stand and wait. The Allies thought it splendid of Italy to stay neutral last time until 1915, and then join them instead of the Kaiser. That released several French divisions for the first Battle of the Marne. Waiting again, Italy has again picked a winner...
...Peace Carillon was unveiled at a sunrise dedication service on Belle Isle, and with it Nancy Brown was unveiled to her readers. Long before midnight, her audience began to gather in the grassy plaza around the limestone tower. Detroit police estimated that 100,000 people turned out to wait for Nancy...