Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germans signed an armistice dictated by France's Marshal Ferdinand Foch. Before Adolf Hitler as he stepped out of the car stood France's monument to Alsace-Lorraine. German war flags covered the sculptured sword thrust into a limp German eagle. Swastika banners hid the inscription beneath: To the Heroic Soldiers of France, Defenders of the Country and of Right, Glorious Liberators of Alsace-Lorraine...
...enemies of democracy do not use this will to arm as a means to found Fascism in this country. Above all, we must not desert Britain and her Empire because they are today our first line of defense. Britain will now be fighting at terrific odds; she may crack beneath the strain just as France has done, but the British fleet must be saved from Hitler or we will find ourselves pawning our democracy in order to build a two ocean navy. Britain is today a very weak first line of defense. We must strengthen it immediately with supplies, planes...
...want to sell at least 25 new G. E.'s so I can leave some bean and potato money for the wife and children while I'm eating off of Uncle Bud. . . . Frankly, I've been sold out -so now I'm selling out. . . ." Beneath a list of salable articles Prisoner Ballew penned his signature and a postscript:" 'If I had the wings of an Angel - Over these prison walls I would fly!" Three weeks ago many a Hall County cotton farmer to whom the merchant had extended liberal credit in years of drought, poor...
...asked Frenchmen last week on the boulevards of Paris and in the wineshops of Auvergne as under a new leader French Armies regrouped themselves along the Somme. Maurice Gustave Gamelin, once acknowledged "the world's foremost soldier," had seen his theories of stand-and-take-it warfare ground beneath the tread of German tanks and blasted into extinction by Nazi dive-bombers. While his predecessor and successor Maxime Weygand sweated under the gigantic task of constructing a new front, the morbidly curious speculated on the fate of the former generalissimo...
...clear fact is that the American people must recast their thinking about national protection. . . . Our defense as it was yesterday, or even as it is today, does not provide security against potential developments and dangers of the future.'' What smoldered beneath his words was the warning that the U. S. is arming, and will have to arm with all its might & main, because the world that is closing in on it is no longer safe for democracy...