Word: aggressor
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...weak state is in danger of disappearing, and America if she hopes to stay neutral, must steel her mind to see the theatre of war gradually widen over Europe. There is not much the United States can do. She can protest to Russia, declare her a belligerent and an aggressor but very little more. But what is important for us is to try to see the issues more clearly all the time, and maintain neutrality in action even though it is becoming more and more impossible to maintain it in thought. Meanwhile states like Finland will be unjustly destroyed...
...goat-elect of the Reichstag fire and personal enemy of Field Marshal Hermann Göring, adopted a "plague-o'-both-your-houses" attitude. In a signed article in the quarterly Communist International, Tovarish Dimitroff performed the neatest logical trick of the week: he called Germany the original aggressor in World War II, said that after the Nazis signed their famed non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union the aggressors became France and Britain. The Comintern's spokesman laid down this Party line...
Instead of Adolf Hitler it was Soviet Premier Viacheslav Molotov who alternately cajoled and threatened, and instead of the Völkischer Beobachter it was the Communist Party official newsorgan Pravda ("Truth") that was out to whip up public indignation against the tiny "aggressor...
...aggressor, aiming at conquest, the complete overthrow of the opposing forces and the occupation of the opponent's territory may be necessary to his success. But not to ours. Our object is fulfilled if we can convince the enemy that he cannot conquer...
...German theme is the familiar one that Britain is an imperialistic aggressor, but the favorite targets have been Britain's inept Ministry of Information (see p. jp) and Winston Churchill. Berlin last week caught Britain red-handed in a BBC report of the torpedoing of the freighter Royal Sceptre (see p. 34), in which it was said that, according to a message, all hands had drowned. Who then, Berlin asked, survived to send the message? After the BBC had fumbled with that for a time, Berlin sent its version: that another British ship, the Browning, had been spared...