Word: attack
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Europe that they are right. We surely can meet their challenge in efficiently producing the machinery of war, but so far there seems to be little evidence that a democracy can provide the personnel for an adequate army. If conscription is not adopted before the enemy is ready to attack, the "last great democracy" will surely disappear from this earth...
...there was scarcely a Republican at Philadelphia who could not deliver a well-phrased attack on the New Deal, except among the inarticulate amateurs of the galleries, who could find their voice only to shout "We want Willkie!" And ever since 1932, hostility to Roosevelt has been a potent U. S. political force-but it had not sent plain citizens out buttonholing their fellows, swallowing their self-consciousness, selling buttons naming their candidate, circulating petitions with an embarrassed ardor...
...year, summer of 1939, opened with spectacular Chinese victories in Shansi Province. The Japanese shook up their high command and started a face-saving drive on Changsha. Their faces were slapped instead, in what Chungking called "the biggest single victory of the war." Desperate, the Japanese undertook a surprise attack, this time successful, on Nanning, in order to cut down on the flow of munitions from French Indo-China into China. This was a serious blow to the Chinese. The fall of Ichang early this month gave the Japanese a convenient base for new and heavier-than-ever bombing attacks...
Last week Japan entered the World War -not explicitly, with a formal declaration and a frontal attack; but deviously, jesuitically, with that unsubtle subtlety which is so peculiarly Japanese. Actually there were two indirect declarations of war: In Tokyo, War Minister General Shunroku Hata told his staff: "We should not miss the present opportunity or we shall be blamed by posterity." And Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita, in a radio speech, defined the opportunity as a chance to enforce what Tokyo papers called an "Asiatic Monroe Doctrine": henceforth Japan would not meddle outside Asia, would tolerate no outside meddling inside Asia...
France, now conveniently supine in Europe, was selected for the first attack. Fortnight ago French Indo-China agreed to make an absolute stop to military traffic into China, even agreed to let Japanese inspectors come in and see that the stoppage was total. Last week the "inspectorate," consisting of a score of eager little penetrators, flew happily to Indo-China and began supervising customs...