Word: attack
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Recognizing "no possible emergency so great as to justify a university or college in enforcing uniformity of faculty, opinion in matters of national policy," the Faculty Defense Group took the lead in the attack in a five-point statement of their position in regard to academic freedom...
...days later Japan brought its ebb-&-flow, bluff-&-counterbluff attack to the flood for a fourth time, smashed through to a final decision. The French agreed to permit three Japanese air stations in Tonkin, with 6,000 troops to garrison them, and granted immediate landing of a limited number of soldiers at Haiphong. But the agreement did not come soon enough to satisfy the fire-eating leaders of Japan's South China Army. Before Major General Nishihara could communicate with them, they had crossed the border at Dong Dang, engaged in a bloody, two-hour midnight skirmish with...
...problems last week Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek never faltered. The "Gissimo" was determined to hang on till the end. He still has enough ammunition left for another year of fighting; the morale of his Army is unimpaired. But he knew and China knew that with the Japanese about to attack on his flank from Tonkin, now, if ever, was the time to listen to Japanese overtures for peace...
Alaska has been vulnerable to invasion since navies were converted from sail to steam. It took the airplane to make it a strategic area from which an attack could be launched against the U. S. From the southern boundary of the narrow, water-laced Alaska panhandle which extends southward along the western frontier of Canada, Seattle is only 625 miles by air. From Juneau, considerably farther north and west, Pan American Airways runs regularly, twice a week, flies to Seattle in seven hours. The special importance of this fact is that this part of Alaska also lies along the route...
...making full use of that precedent now, by preparing to sell some of our "Flying Fortresses" to Britain. Mr. Willkie was caught napping on the destroyer deal, with no chance to comment until afterwards. Now, with another horse trade in progress behind the scenes, he has a chance to attack something better than an untouchable fait accompli, and score a real hit on the President's dictatorial methods. If his protest against the destroyer deal was sincere, he will surely not let this opportunity go begging...