Word: weakenings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the Battle of Britain was three months old. Prime Minister Churchill dug up an old gag to keep British hearts high: "It's a great life if you don't weaken." Out of the continued bombings -London had 300 alarms, and the Midlands got it hard-came two items which said a lot about whether or not Britons were weakening...
Peace offensives are generally for one of two purposes: 1) to weaken the morale of an enemy and his friends, before an armed offensive; 2) to prepare the ground for a real peace offer. The rumors of the past few weeks might be for either. There have always been important groups in both Britain and Germany, in both China and Japan, that felt war was stupid and needless. Weeks ago the Rome-Berlin Axis was supposed to be trying to get the Vatican to propose peace on the grounds that Germany could not conquer the British Isles and Britain could...
...with Finland, the ex-Baron blamed "those who wanted to use the Finns as cannon-fodder to weaken the Soviet Union...
...Representative Taber: "If a Republican had delivered such a ruling he would have been called a 'fifth columnist' by the gentleman in the White House." Snorted Pundit Walter Lippmann: "To roast pigs we must burn down a barn; to strengthen the Wagner Act we must weaken the National Defense...
...three things Germany very much wanted to get at: the oil fields of Iran and Iraq, which could supply Germany's major shortage; Gibraltar, one of the keys to British sea power; and Dakar, a place of many potential uses (see map). A drive in the East could weaken the British Empire gravely. Meanwhile bombing would continue Britain's terrible wearing down...