Word: juggernauts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hills of Hell. That this "neutral" news was fabricated and exaggerated did not take away one jot from the performance of Greece. The mere fact that Greece chose to oppose the Axis juggernaut defied belittling; it was magnificent...
...first thing Simon Patino did on his arrival last week was to try to get aboard the U. S. defense juggernaut. He told the press he is "entirely in accord" with hemisphere defense plans (which means he would sell all his ore to the U. S.), would help U. S. defense by building a $2,000,000 smelter here, would see the Defense Advisory Commission as soon as he caught his breath. But the Defense Commission, feeling tough, was in no hurry. It knew that ex-Internationalist Patino had nowhere else...
During the past month cataclysmic events have taken place in Europe. We have had a revelation of power which had been hidden from even the military experts. 'The Nazi Juggernaut has gone crashing across Europe, heedless of the resistance of the small powers, threatening the French with imminent defeat and raising the specter of an invasion of England. Whatever may be, said of these victories, they raise problems whose very existence occasion the most acute anxiety in this country. These victories oblige us, I believe, to reviser positions which appeared perfectly tenable last autumn...
...German words and acts last week and this week pointed to the heart of France, rather than Britain, as the Nazi juggernaut's next immediate destination. High-flying waves of German bombers paraded over Paris, began a new reign of terror by showering heavy bombs at airfields, factories, railroads. Forty-five people were killed, 149 injured and thousands scared, including U. S. Ambassador Bullitt (see p. 30). Marseille and Lyon were raided by Germans looking for industrial objectives down the Rhone Valley...
...German juggernaut is so near the northwest outskirts of the French capital that the American Red Cross headquarters has fled to Bordeaux...