Word: objects
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Relations between Boston and Nazi Germany have taken a turn for the worse. With characteristic suddenness, the Teutons have broken off diplomatic relations with the Traveler, charging the paper with "uncivilized" editorial comment on the Fuehrer. This time the object of their fury, is an appeal to the American people to devise the "most hellish instruments of defense" against "this creature Hitler," and "ex-guttersnipe," a "mediocre little man," a "fanatical, sub-standard person," a "dirty gutter fighter," and "infamous beast." In Nazi eyes, it is uncivilized to "defend the eternal verities," to "meet the diabolical challenge of "Hitler...
...some 150,000 Japanese troops began the first big drive of spring 1940 against Chinese forces on the plateau in northern Hupeh and southern Honan near Hankow, bomb-gutted "Chicago of China." Object was to win a victory spectacular enough to justify final and official recognition by the Imperial Japanese Government of their Chinese puppet ruler at Nanking, multiple-turncoat Wang Ching...
...incontrovertible information" that German experts had laid out and equipped 26 camouflaged airplane landing fields along the border. Mexicans from President Cárdenas to the poorest peon knew that a fifth column was on the march south of the Rio Grande. They also knew that its immediate object was not to prepare Mexico for the advent of Adolf Hitler but to keep Uncle Sam out of Europe by keeping him busy in his own backyard...
...cartel cut the Germans out of the market, black-listed dealers who could not convince Sir Ernest's executives they would not let their purchases into the Reich. When the British held the Pan-American Clipper at Bermuda and seized U. S. ship mail at Gibraltar, one big object of their search was diamonds headed for Nazi factories. Last week U. S. industrialists might well ponder what a Hitler-dominated cartel could do to mass production...
...beyond that, Mr. Conant is contradicting himself, for no national policy is more thoroughly motivated by fear of war than the very preparedness program he supports. He admits that its object is to make us secure. But in this hope, he is misled. There is no surer way to war, and a terribly destructive one, than to arm as we are doing. In effect, we are at war with Germany already, practically committed to fight her openly in case of an Allied defeat. Already Walter Lippmann is calling for sacrifices for "defense" that are no different from those demanded...