Word: attack
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...began, the Senate's action posed the dilemma of extreme isolationists. Against the vague fear that at some future time a loan to Finland might lead to credits that might lead to war, there loomed another possibility-that a Russian victory in Finland would lead to an attack on Sweden, to an eventual German-Russian revolutionary dominance of Scandinavia that would crush four of the world's democratic governments and so form a combination that no European power could resist. But such possibilities were not discussed in the Senate. The future of civilization might be involved...
...Great Britain surrendered the right to attack belligerent ships outside the three-mile limit, said the note, German warships and supply vessels might be provided with "a vast sanctuary from which they could emerge to attack Allied and neutral shipping." Said Great Britain: if the Americas wanted to establish such a peace belt they should be prepared to keep it peaceful by policing...
...military reasons Rumania anticipates attack from across the Dnestr near Cernauti (see map) rather than from Odessa into Bessarabia. (In Bessarabia there are too many swamplands to cross.) There are now 18 Rumanian divisions massed around Cernauti as against four in Bessarabia, which Rumania might even yield under stress, taking her stand along the River Prut. But meantime Rumania is frantically strengthening her positions from the Black Sea, along the entire length of the Russian border, and back along the entire length of the Hungarian border-honor among Balkan nations cannot be trusted...
...attack was issued by the Dean's Office against users of tutoring notes for violating the "integrity" of the reading period in a statement yesterday...
This is the second attack on tutoring schools that has come from University Hall during the past week. Previously, the Dean's Office has pointed out the futility and educational harms caused by tutoring...