Word: opened
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Your statement [TIME, Sept. 23] that Mr. G. E. R. Gedye "lost his job with the London Telegraph for criticizing Neville Chamberlain in his book, Fallen Bastions," would, I think, be less open to misconstruction if you could add as a footnote the following quotation from a letter from Mr. Arthur E. Watson, managing editor of the Daily Telegraph, which was published in the New Statesman on April...
...course the Americas are following is slowly drawing one or all of us into war." Said he: "This country wants no war with any nation. This hemisphere wants no war with any nation." He salved South American pride with the statement that newly acquired U. S. naval bases were open to other republics of the Western Hemisphere for cooperative use. And he came to a defiant climax...
Japan's alternative would be a tough one, too-to reduce the flanking bases, while her aircraft, operating from Yap, Palau and other bases in the mandated islands, went to work on Amboina and Surabaya. In 1914, Tsingtao, garrisoned by about 6,000 German troops and wide open to attack, held out against the Japanese and British for more than two months. Better munitioned and better located (on an island) than Tsingtao, Hong Kong is garrisoned by 12,000 crack British troops. Once having silenced Hong Kong, Surabaya and Amboina, the Japanese Fleet might swing around the east side...
...every Axis attack only confirmed the fact that Britain's ocean lanes were still open. Its losses for the week were being replaced by the purchase of 19 U. S. freighters, each of 10,000 tons or less. Boasted First Lord of the Admiralty Albert Victor Alexander: "The stream of new ships is now coming steadily in from the yards. . . . Great convoys of food, raw materials, arms and men . . . sailed and arrived with clockwork regularity. . . . We cannot be beaten...
...whales, which are about 50 ft. long. The greys were paralyzed with terror. "I watched a grey whale turn on its back with flippers outspread and lie helpless at the surface. Rushing at full speed, a killer put his nose against the whale's lips, forced its mouth open, and tore out great chunks of the soft, sponge-like tongue. A half-dozen other killers began tearing at the giant body, literally eating the whale alive...