Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...would indicate that a cessation of fighting would save more lives and prevent further useless destruction. Does it make any practical difference to us who owns the rubber and the tin, provided we can trade with the owner? If we do not like the owner, then again the only argument worth making is still an argument that can be backed up by force...
...argument: European bases, such as Gibraltar, are just as essential to Atlantic security as are ships. As long as they remain in the hands of powers that respect the Monroe Doctrine, "no hostile ships, except for a few submarines and raiders, could get into the Atlantic at all." Second: "It is an illusion for people to believe that in the end the British Navy will pass easily to you. We in Britain shall certainly fight to the end to defend our country . . . [but] quite apart from the difficulties that would arise, if you were neutral, of handing over a fleet...
Georges Mandel, terrifying Minister of the Interior who had set about ruthlessly suppressing dissension in the land, then roared that he would order a lettre de cachet (imprisonment without trial) of anyone advocating separate peace-including Cabinet Ministers. The argument crackled and burned. Suddenly heavy-faced Edouard Daladier stormed out of the room. Sarraut and de Monzie, spaniel-like Ministers of Education and Public Works, followed...
...Robbins-that's right twenty-three white ones out front and two black ones behind... now don't be Peddie for Huey Brooks no argument. Dammann it. I only Read the signs, so I go out on a Shortledge and predict 23-3 for the Crimson and a small but precious prize for any one who can work in Zimmerman...
...night the argument went on, growing bitter as time passed. The Ministers urged the King to quit the Army and go to France or England. According to the account of Foreign Minister Spaak, Premier Pierlot finally said...