Word: attack
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Hitler's new attack, the Allies knew, would be no less terrific than his last. But this time there were probably 100,000 fewer trained German soldiers in the world, and perhaps three times as many wounded whose return through Germany to hospitals in Poland, Moravia and Austria aroused what the Allies believed were the German people's first serious misgivings. Official warnings in Berlin against overoptimism sent Boerse prices, which had boomed, crashing down...
...plausible to suspect that Adolf Hitler had planned it that way. For if U. S. attention could be focused on the Western Hemisphere, there was less chance of any useful aid being sent to the European democracies, which were at last to bear the full brunt of Axis attack...
When they arrived-Premier Hubert Pierlot, Foreign Minister Paul Henri Spaak, two others-they faced a King who was agitated and harassed, with tears in his eyes. Latest military reports, said the King, showed that the Belgian Army was bearing the brunt of the German attack. Behind it the British and French were already backing toward the Channel. Further resistance would not save Belgium. In his opinion, King Leopold said, the Belgian Army should withdraw from...
...have been dearly bought. In this land there must not be found one treacherous hand to give them away." From the Most Rev. Michael Browne, Bishop of Galway, came the enormous support of the Catholic Church. "Any Irishman," the Bishop told assembled Connaughtmen, "who assists any foreign power to attack the legitimate authority of his own land is guilty of the most terrible crime against God's law, and there can be no excuse for that crime-not even the pretext of solving partition or of securing unity...
...along the sprawling, blazing 500 mile western front--from the sea to Switzerland the French tightened their lines and launched a fierce counter attack...