Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Obviously, all democracy is based upon some curtailment of personal liberty. Certain general assumptions, certain tacit agreements are necessary as a working hypothesis before any people can govern itself. It may be that we will have to broaden the base of these assumptions in order to establish a more vigorous, functioning, cooperative society. It may be that we will have to consent to a loss of some personal liberties in order to preserve the basic liberty of choosing those who are to govern. We need men now who do not fear change and do not count the bookkeeping cost...
...aircraft carriers and a highly efficient air force to screen and precede the dreadnoughts. Wherever Joe Richardson was, he was sure to be smoking his pipe, playing penny-a-point cribbage. And it was a safe bet that he was maneuvering his formidable armada at some place nearer his base at Pearl Harbor (see map, pp. 14-75) than to the South China Sea, where Japan was up to no good...
...bases is distance. Mightily fortified Pearl Harbor in Hawaii is the only U. S. base west of San Diego where the main fleet could be sheltered, fueled, repaired in wartime. The waters where the U. S. would have to fight an offensive war in the Pacific are Japan's waters - 4,500 to 6,000 perilous miles beyond Pearl Harbor. That is too far for the main fleet to go, fight, return: its practicable battle radius (with due allowance for cruising and combat maneuvers) is 2,500 to 2,700 miles from its base.* Such is the elemental, geographic...
Another kind of war would be more likely. Cruisers, aircraft, submarines would use the main fleet as a floating base, raid Japan's trade and naval lanes (see map, pp. 14-15}. That would be a long, negative and costly war, would require a stupendous naval effort. If it chose, the U. S. could certainly make the effort, in the end would probably...
Ideal location for the proposed Nazi coup was this most pro-Allied, smallest of South American republics (size of North Dakota, population of Los Angeles). Bounded on the west by big Argentina and on the northeast by bigger Brazil, it provided an admirable base for espionage against its larger neighbors, consistent advisers on its foreign policy...