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On Fifth Columnists. I know there are a great many people affected by the orders which we have made who are passionate enemies-of Nazi Germany. I am very sorry for them, but we cannot, under the present circumstances, draw all the distinctions we should like to do. If parachute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British War Report: Winston Churchill to Commons | 6/17/1940 | See Source »

In its most extreme form the Nazi menace would mean naval and military action in the western hemisphere. A completely victorious Germany would control the Italian navy, possess perhaps important parts of the French and British navies, enlist the natural cooperation of the Jananese, and have at her disposal an...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 6/12/1940 | See Source »

At least one British division and two French remained in the hellish strip at Dunkirk pounded now by German artillery as well as bombs, when a stocky figure in a soiled field uniform at last consented to obey orders from London and embark. Accompanied only by two staff officers, General...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Battle to the Sea | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

Ten thousand more noncommissioned officers were called to their regiments, soldiers in full equipment marched through border towns, railroad stations clanged with freight cars moving artillery and munitions northwest toward the frontier of France. At week's end Editor Giovanni Ansaldo of Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER POLITICS: Any Day, Any Hour | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

Those who advocate such "preparedness" feel they are being wholly objective, weighing coolly the threat of a German victory, and acting only in our best military interest. Most of them do not stop to think that by backing such a program, by crying helplessly that there is nothing else to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CREDIMUS--II | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

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