Word: defenders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doctors in England that the excitement of a war as well as the feeling of a large common objective, has taken people's minds from their own ailments. In fact the group in England which has had the most complaints is the army, waiting in boring expectancy to defend Britain from German invasion...
...Council's resolutions frankly reported a disagreement among its members, some holding with the Quakers that Christians are forbidden "to engage in war under any circumstances" while most believed that Christianity "demands that we defend with all the power given us the sacred rights of humanity." This time the issue of pacifism was sidestepped in the interest of unity, and Christian participation in the war is not included among the 13 points with which the message closes. Most significant of these 13 points are: > "To withstand any propaganda of hatred or revenge and to refuse it the sanction...
...citizens we gratefully acknowledge a priceless national heritage of freedom and democratic ideals for which earlier generations struggled and sacrificed. We cherish this heritage more deeply when we see it attacked by a totalitarian threat. We are resolved to defend it from the menace of rival systems from without and from the degradation of abuse or neglect from within...
...only program to be broadcast by the Crimson Network during examination period, President Conant will speak to the University tomorrow night at 10 o'clock on "What We Are Fighting to Defend...
...Weakness. The result was that the Japanese quickly got command of the air over Malaya, and the defenders were now badly in need of air power to help land power defend sea power. Last week the Japanese bombed, not only the forward posts of land power, but the base of sea power, Singapore...