Word: denning
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Drang Nach Süden. Adolf Hitler knew that a winter campaign in the South would have several advantages. His people and Army were both becoming restive for new triumphs. Of 212 divisions in all, probably not over 60 were useful to garrison the conquered territories. All the rest-about 150-might as well be put to some use. There were three things Germany very much wanted to get at: the oil fields of Iran and Iraq, which could supply Germany's major shortage; Gibraltar, one of the keys to British sea power; and Dakar, a place of many...
...den Bergen, Wald und Auen
...Berlin despite urgent popular pull for it, the R. A. F. further pointed out that it had bombed scores of authentic military objectives, such as potential jumping-off spots for an invasion, railroad centres like Hamm, Ehrang (near Trier), Osnabrück, Brussels, air bases at Norderney and Den Helder, industrial plants like Bremen's Deutsche Schiffund Maschinenbau (shipbuilding), and three of Berlin's railroad terminals...
...Visitor. Frank Jackson, who came to see him at 5:30 that afternoon, was not, he thought, one of these agents. Though Frank Jackson was suspected in Mexico City of being a shady character known as Leon Jacome, as Leon Haikys, as Jacques Mornard van den Dreschd and sometimes simply as el tipo Judio Frances (the French-Jewish type), Trotsky knew him as an admiring young disciple who contributed generously to the Fourth International. Six months before, Jackson had been brought to him by a Manhattan social worker named Silvia Ageloff, whose sister was once Trotsky's secretary. Jackson...
...week's end Witnesses walked into the lions' den for fair, vowed they would hold their national convention this week at Detroit, lair of that most militant of Catholics, Father Coughlin, and only a river away from forbidden Canada...