Word: whirlpools
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Caught in the whirlpool, General Draja Mihailovich is operating in general to the southeast of the area held by the Partisans. He has been receiving arms from the Italians. According to the Yugoslav Government in Exile, Mihailovich got arms from the Italians ostensibly to fight the Partisans, but actually put them away for future anti-Axis operations...
...first place, the Marines' beachhead on Guadalcanal is important by the mere fact of its having been the first offensive U.S. battlefield against the Japs. It has become the vortex of a naval whirlpool which may easily engulf either adversary. But beyond that it is a geographic key. If the U.S. loses Guadalcanal, the Japanese can press on with relative ease, take the whole chain of islands down through the New Hebrides to New Caledonia (see map), and then have only the narrow moat of the Coral Sea between them and Australia. But if the U.S. holds Guadalcanal...
...ever-present threats within as well as without which demand a liberal dose of "eternal vigilance." What about Georgia's Governor Talmadge, the Dies and Rapp-Coudert committees, the hounding intolerance of the "justice" dealt out to Bridges and Browder? These are sinister ripples which could easily become a whirlpool of suppression. However fine the direction of Roosevelt's foreign policy, what about the hypocrisy and backhandedness of his means? What about the banning from the ballot of the Socialists in many states last November, and the New York business men's conference which avowed a preference toward fascism over...
...defense bases and army-navy-air power; they may still be nodding when the argument is persuasively made for at least the short-run military impenetrability of the Western Hemisphere. But as the authors draw steadily away from the safe ground of indisputable fact and into the whirlpool of opinion, this head, at least, registers dissent. Wide though the military and strategic knowledge of Messrs. MacLiesh and Cushman may be, they are entirely out of the narrow limitations which they can has to in the earlier part of the book when they reject the idea of getting into...
...world watched the U. S. whirlpool, to see what river might flow out of its settling. France had fallen before it knew what the war was about; England, taken suddenly by the throat, hadn't had time to figure things out. The U. S., under the impression that there was still time and room to make up its mind, was arguing along as it always had: in straggling, disputative, disorderly democracy...