Word: defenders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Will Defend Free Education...
...Darlan closed a deal under which Germany will help to run French industry (i.e., direct it). From Morocco General Maxime Weygand rushed to Vichy, lunched with Admiral Darlan and assured the new boss that he was no foe of "collaboration." After the luncheon a communique announced that France would defend "any part of her Empire alone." Since Great Britain has forces in Palestine on Syria's frontier, and since Emir Abdullah of neighboring Trans-Jordan came out for Britain last week (see p. 27), this warning seemed directed at Great Britain...
...Germans attack Turkey, or the zone of Turkey's security, they will face a real catastrophe. Turkey is the strong front of the Islamic East. Any attack against Turkey would provoke all Orientals and lead them to defend Turkey with their lives and their money. The fall of Turkey, which Allah forbid!-would mean the fall of the Eastern Front and a loss of prestige for Islam. The new Turkey, with her ally, Britain, forms a tremendous power in the East competent to resist any aggression...
Under strict party discipline, faculty members were occasionally given proletarian tasks to perform "to prevent excessive pride." E.g., they had to paste surreptitiously on subway windows and pillars stickers with slogans such as Defend the Soviet Union and All Out May Day. Comrades had to get permission to travel, do scholarly research, study for higher degrees. The comrades mortally feared detection; one even wore gloves when he edited a campus Communist sheet, to avoid leaving fingerprints...
Milton and His Modern Critics is a little (87-page) book by a critic whom people are beginning to read more & more, about a poet whom people have been reading less & less. Had Milton known that Logan Pearsall Smith would one day defend him, he would probably have cried again: "Avenge O Lord thy slaughter'd Saints." A defense by the dilettante author of Trivia, More Trivia and All Trivia could seem scarcely less incongruous to the author of Paradise Lost than the Restoration...