Word: forget
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week events would not let the President and his aides forget the problem. A 24th, a 25th British destroyer were reported lost. How many more were damaged and out of action only the British Admiralty knew. The German censor released a picture of what happened to one British destroyer (see cut)-a reminder of Britain's need. A Republican paper, the New York Herald Tribune suggested that "the British are at once in a much stronger long-run position, yet in more urgent need of immediate assistance" than German invasion talk led the U. S. to believe...
Historians always and novelists never forget that statesmen's worries are not exclusively those of the commonweal. Last week there came from France the story of a private tragedy which was nothing to the national tragedy but which touched French hearts...
...Leavenworth as an instructor for three years. General Bell, mightily impressed at the ease with which young Marshall tossed off astute, clearly written orders to cover tactical situations in maneuvers, called him the greatest U. S. military genius since Stonewall Jackson. Modest George Marshall has been trying to forget this heavy praise ever since. But General Bell was not alone in his high opinion. Able, erratic, spectacular General Johnson Hagood once wrote, on a Marshall efficiency report: "This officer [then a lieutenant] is well qualified to command a division with the rank of major general, in time...
...flaw in the picture-as Neville Chamberlain might perhaps explain-is that appeasement is apt not to work. To sacrifice China might well prove no more fruitful than was the sacrifice of Czechoslovakia, and when the U. S. had its Fleet in the Atlantic Japan might, like Hitler, forget her pledges...
...Congress' anxiety to forget about the destruction of democracy in Europe, one tenuous connection was allowed to continue. At sea was the Red Cross "mercy ship" McKeesport, which had started out for Bordeaux, heading straight into a combat zone without the necessary guarantee of safe conduct from belligerents. Before Congress was an Administration proposal to exempt Red Cross vessels from the Neutrality Act; otherwise the McKeesport might have to be ordered back. Cried West Virginia's lame-duck Senator Rush Holt: "This resolution of authority might be the spark. ..." Nevertheless, the resolution passed...