Word: resistive
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...torn be inner conflict that the German army could cross the ocean in canoes. It is time to end these theories of invasion, so easily refuted by calculations of gross tonnage. When Hitler gets ready to invade the United States will have a government unwilling and unable to resist...
...Wherever men today fight and die to resist tyranny and aggression they man outposts of our freedom, making more difficult, more distant the threat to our shores," stated the telegram. "To permit them to fail for the want of weapons that we can supply or for the lack of resources that we can furnish, would be not only to disregard our own national interests but also to turn our backs on the support and encouragement of those freedoms that have been . . .the foundation of our republic...
When Thailand pressed its claims against Indo-China, Vichy instructed Hanoï to resist. Border incidents broke out, and by last week they had become pretty intense. There were small bombings and counter-bombings. The fighting was by no means a war, but it was an episode which somehow epitomized the tragic complications of the year of grace 1940. A no-account strip of precipitous jungle on the Mekong River had become a matter of world politics involving not only Thailand and France, but the Axis and Britain-and even the U. S., which may some day have to defend...
...Edison thought that the Navy should rearmor, redesign the topsides of its ships to resist bomb fragments, flying splinters. Naval top hats last week indicated that they leaned more to increasing the numbers of anti-aircraft guns on the ships. Whatever the method they eventually decided on, they had substantially conceded Charles Edison's point. It would be a long job, in any case. To rearm or rearmor ships now with the Fleet would take five to six years, the Navy Department announced. In that case, the seven months lost between May and December 1940 probably made no difference...
...demands, including control of Saïgon, further bases in the Gulf of Tongkin and along the South China Sea coast, Indo-China's entire exportable surplus of rubber, tin, rice, lead, zinc and tungsten. These would give Japan a new source of supplies with which to resist a blockade, would put her in a position to harass the British at Singapore and the U. S. at Manila...