Word: making
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Through the murk of biased reporting on both sides, just one fact shone bright as an ancient Greek fire beacon. Adolf Hitler has an unearthly way, not only of beating his enemies, but of getting his allies into embarrassing wars which make his own successes seem greater. Winter in Finland and the rainy season in Greece were two good examples...
...attackers, who landed on both sides of the town and surrounded it, were French colonial troops from garrisons in Equatorial Africa, led by "criminal former officers." They had some bombers and made things hot for defenders under General Tenu, the colony's vice governor, who announced: "Nothing will make us bend our knee...
...into British control since war began. British ports are crowded with freighters waiting their turn-but so are Britain's shipyards crowded with tonnage under repair. For many a ship, which the Germans wrongly claim to have sunk, has had enough plates sprung by near bomb hits to make it unseaworthy. The truth of Britain's tonnage position is not all told in Admiralty admissions of sinkings, however honest, any more than it is in German claims. Last week, on the very heels of Mr. Churchill's tonnage speech, the German Admiralty claimed in 36 hours...
Britain, said the Führer, taking up his old refrain, had refused to make peace with him. "I wanted the closest friendship with England. I thought the Germanic races should go together. If England had agreed, good. They did not agree. Also good. If England says that the war will continue, that is all the same to me. But it will end with our victory. You may believe me in that...
...chief obstacle standing in the way of the Drang nach Osten is Turkey. With help from Russia the Turks could make trouble for the German Army, and with help from Russia the Turks would not be averse to doing so. Stalin's tough problem has been whether to encourage Turkey to resist the Axis, at the price of concessions from Turkey that would make it a virtual Russian protectorate, or whether to sell Turkey out, at the price of territory in the Near East and (if Turkey should resist anyway) a share of Turkish territory...