Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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After the scars of World War I had been harrowed from the battlefields of Europe, Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg paid his respects to U. S. industry's part in Germany's defeat: "Her brilliant, if pitiless, war industry had entered the service of patriotism and had not failed it." Of the War Industries Board which put U. S. industry to work, the old warrior gravely observed: "They understood...
Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels' new weekly, Das Reich, said very officially: "Actually the question of invasion or no invasion, invasion today or invasion tomorrow, plays no part in victory or defeat. This question has already been answered by the German victory on the Continent...
...explained that it be came clear that Dakar could not be taken without "a major military operation," which Britain did not wish to undertake against the former ally. But this rationalization was not enough for the rest of the world to swallow. No explanation would make Dakar anything but defeat. Furthermore, it was a serious defeat. Dakar, being the westernmost point on Africa's bulge, potentially commands the Atlantic. It is the terminus of airlines from Europe and interior Africa. It is only 1,700 miles from the tip of Brazil. In German hands it would play merry Neptune...
...Diplomatically the mission's main job will be to counteract intensive Nazi propaganda. To do so it hopes to arrange for large stocks of British goods to be sent for "spot sale," avoiding shipping delays and countering Nazi claims that Britain, faced with inevitable defeat, cannot guarantee delivery of goods abroad...
Phillips Exeter Academy's more finished football team found little trouble in winning its second game of the season Saturday when it sent a potentially powerful Freshman eleven down to a 12 to a defeat in their opening game...