Word: safeguards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Since midnight all weapons have been silent on all fronts . . . thus ending a heroic struggle that lasted almost six years. ... In the end the German Wehrmacht succumbed with honor to enormous superiority. . . . Every soldier . . . may lay aside his weapon proud and erect and set to work ... to safeguard the undying life of our people...
...task to safeguard order and the civilian population in all spheres of public life. To carry out this task all military and civilian authorities in my sector have been subordinated to me. ... I expect unquestioned devotion to duty and obedience to this order...
...when the Big Three signed the Rumanian armistice last September. In his letter of blessing, Stalin took pains to base his decision on the Allied precedent. He may well have had an eye cocked at London and Washington when he reminded the Groza Government of its duty to safeguard Transylvania's Hungarian and other minorities...
...military might. The Russian Government, temporarily "respectable." was permanently revolutionary. Its appeal, reaching far beyond its war fronts and frontiers, was, in theory, one of the noblest in the history of human hope - nothing less than the freeing of mankind from want, fear and suffering. But to safeguard its purpose, and focus its energies, it had organized one of the most resolute dictatorships the world had ever known, serviced by one of the most complex and efficient systems of secret police. In carrying its ideals abroad, it had developed a new tactic in power politics - the appeal to the foreign...
Stripped to the bare facts, that situation was that Chungking, a dictatorship ruling high-handedly in order to safeguard the last vestiges of democratic principles in China, was engaged in an undeclared civil war with Yenan, a dictatorship whose purpose was the spread of totalitarian Communism in China. At the same time Chungking was locked in a life & death struggle with Japan...