Word: commandant
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...events of the past few months have made it clear that we can no longer afford such nonsense. The Germans are strong in South America in certain sections, not so much be cause they crawl about like beetles performing their loathsome machinations at the dictates of the Nazi High Command, but because in the last 20 years numbers of them have worked hard, very hard, to make them selves and their families a living in South America and in doing so have performed real services to their communities and countries. To put the matter bluntly, the Germans have...
...Campaigner. Once he had taken the field. Franklin Roosevelt went campaigning almost as if 1940 were any year, as if the race were any race. His train moved with the exact precision that years of organization and the power of the Presidency command. Every Democratic precinct chief knew exactly when the President would pass, knew just when to have his crowd assembled. First stop was Wilmington, Del., where four years ago the President tipped over the Republicans for the first time in 24 years. The train stopped. A huge station crowd roared expectantly. As always, the President let them wait...
...assurance he gave with all the power he could command: "I give you this most solemn assurance: there is no secret treaty, no secret obligation, no secret commitment, no secret understanding in any shape or form, direct or indirect ... to involve this nation in any war or for any other purpose...
...motorized scouting unit, of which he was second in command, was forced to retreat from Rouen when French engineers prematurely dynamited a bridge over which much of their equipment was coming...
...been held. . . . His face was damp with perspiration that comes from deep thought. ... He said ... 'I have been here seven years. I believe I am entitled to a rest.' I looked upon that benign face . . . and I said: 'Mr. President, you are a soldier ... in command of an unselfish army . . . that believes in happiness for the human race . . . that wants to strike the shackles from human limbs, and make all men happy and free. We cannot give up in the middle of this struggle...