Word: attack
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Roosevelt: "We will not . . . send our Army, naval or air forces to fight in foreign lands outside of the Americas except in case of attack...
...Issue. That this attack was not directly aimed at Opponent Willkie, but at some of his supporters, made it only slightly less effective oratorical ammunition. As a whole the debate was fought by both candidates on the bad past record of the other side. On important present issues they seldom came to grips. On only one such issue did both declare themselves, although mostly by implication: Candidate Roosevelt insisted that the New Deal's methods of dealing with business had been necessary for the welfare of labor and business alike; Candidate Willkie maintained that neither social advances nor defense...
...glassy, fog-brushed calms of late autumn and winter would not make pretty invading weather. This week Field Marshal Sir Cyril Deverell, onetime chief of the Imperial General Staff, warned that the invasion might come during the winter-that the Germans had a precedent in Moltke's winter attack on Denmark in 1864. Because a politico-military offensive was shaping up farther south did not mean that an offensive could not be simultaneously launched in the north...
...once been thought an Axis stooge, called for aid from Britain and Turkey. Turkey's President Ismet Inönü had one ear cocked toward the Kremlin, and since his other ear is stone deaf, he did not immediately hear the call. Britain, expecting an attack on Gibraltar any day, sent her Mediterranean Fleet steaming toward the danger area. If Britain lost in the Eastern Mediterranean, and lost Gibraltar too, her goose was much closer to being cooked...
...over the countries they could hear the music of war getting louder, the giant Axis metronome ticking a little faster. Herr Hitler's tour and Signor Mussolini's attack to the East brought Europe one step closer to the solid bloc which would constitute the New Order-a pan-Europe which the Axis hopes can defy Britain's blockade and turn it against the blockaders* The alignment of France and Spain, the former in supine collaboration, the latter with willing spirit but feeble body, would make possible an all-out attack soon on the Western Mediterranean. This...