Word: make
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Never make a speech unless you feel you have something really worthwhile to say; then say it, and having said it, stop talking...
...three fronts interlocked, for if the war in the north is kept limited, Russia may feel free to attack the Balkans. In reverse, if Norway and Sweden are drawn into war with Russia, thereby cutting off Germany's much-needed supplies, Germany might feel forced to make a new attack in the west -especially if Great Britain and France were allied with the Scandinavian countries. It was by no means certain that any of the neutrals would be sucked into the war. But last week's crisis showed that it was possible for World War II to spread...
Besides threatening Sylt and Helgoland to make Germany's warbirds stay home, Britain also sent night patrols far into Germany last week, over Austria, Bohemia and northeast Germany, dropping pamphlets. This was the second major operation after a shake-up in the Royal Air Force in France. Until the resignation of War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha, Britain's Air Force in France was divided into: 1) Army Cooperation units under Vice Marshal C. H. B. Blount, who took orders from the Army's General the Viscount Gort; 2) Advanced Striking Force under Vice Marshal Patrick Playfair...
Forty-seven years ago last week at Revel, Russia (now Tallinn, Estonia), a boy was born who was destined to make his mark in European politics. As a youth he soap-boxed for anti-Semitism and studied architecture. As a nominal subject of the Tsar he fought (so his enemies later said) with the Russian Imperial Armies. As a descendant of an old German Baltic family, he became a Pan-German and returned, after World War I, to his "spiritual homeland...
...Germany he fell in with a young politician on the make, Adolf Hitler by name, and began to supply him with most of the ideas that later became Nazi gospel. He advocated a return to the pagan worship of Thor and Wotan. He wrote a long volume of gibberish called Mythology in the 20th Century, which few Nazis could decipher and fewer non-Nazis wanted to. As the editor of the Nazi newsorgan Völkischer Beobachter he predicted that when Hitler came to power "Jewish bodies will hang from every telegraph pole between Munich and Berlin." Above...