Word: deadlocker
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...They reasoned that this was still a war of blockade. Britain, with Canada and the U. S. behind her, was still blockading Hitler's Europe, and, by the grip on Gibraltar and Suez, Mussolini's Italy. The deadlock in the Battle of Britain, apparently, was about to bring a new Axis strategy into play against this blockade. Hitler undoubtedly visited Mussolini at Brenner Pass last week to talk strategy (see p. 39). German papers began to argue, not without a certain petulance, that Britain could be beaten without a costly invasion. Could it be possible that...
...broke out with Bolivia. For three years he kept winning promotions in the Chaco jungles, rose to General and Commander in Chief by handing the superior, German-trained Bolivian Army a thorough pasting. When an armistice commission of tne U. S., Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay and Peru broke the deadlock in 1935, José Félix Estigarribia won for Paraguay, on paper, more territory than it had ever held before...
...telephone services. Political circles buzzed over a rumor that General Francisco J. Mugica, close personal friend of General Almazán, had been invited by U. S. Ambassador Josephus Daniels for a long conversation. General Mugica had been prominently mentioned as a compromise President to break the present deadlock...
...someone else, the embargo was equally useful. Closure of the Indo-China and Burma supply routes put an end to direct U. S. aid to China, which for three years had impaled 1,125,000 Japanese soldiers and most of the Imperial Fleet. Only other way to prolong the deadlock was to end direct aid to Japan...
...observers were unanimous in denouncing this count as unashamedly rigged. Somewhat more modest, but no more dependable, was the opposition claim that General Almazán had carried 150 out of 172 electoral districts. The result as both sides stuck to their figures and fingered their triggers, was a deadlock. As tension mounted, Federal police raided General Almazán's Mexico City offices and seized his personal and business papers. The Attorney General's office later claimed that all the documents were returned. This week the General's campaign headquarters charged that business...