Word: rifted
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...deep was the rift between the Nazis and the Officers' Corps? Most Germans did not know. The Nazis still withheld the names of all but four of the Wehrmacht officers who may have had a hand in the attempt on Hitler. But Dr. Goebbels did not hide the fact that Berlin's Guard Battalion had had to seize the Ministry of War in the Bendler-Strasse, where the Army High Command makes its headquarters, carry out impromptu executions in its courtyard...
...letter. To answer its charges-that workers in industry were making too much money, that civilians should be regimented since soldiers were, that people charged with hampering the war effort should be shot without trial-he went to see for himself what was happening throughout the U.S. The widening rift between civilians and servicemen troubled him. He believed that although "all sorts of injustices have flourished under [the U.S. system] . . . I don't think you'll deny that during the 168 years of the existence of the U.S. the ordinary run of men here have had a better...
...publication and later broadcast were swift and frightening. The British Government presented its stern denial directly to the Soviet Government. The British press fired harsh words at Russia for the first time since Hitler turned east: lie, insult, slander. Nazi propaganda set to work to prove a fatal rift in the fabric of agreement supposedly woven at Teheran, raise again the specter of a Red Europe. Ordinary Russians, taught to believe their press implicitly, now wondered whether Britain was about to betray them. In the U.S. many a plain citizen had his faith in Russia as an ally...
...immediate present was victory. The greatest virtue of the Moscow Conference was that its first purpose was to guarantee victory. It had girded with iron the great possible weakness of the Allies. Now, engrossed in direct military cooperation, the United Nations need not concern themselves about a wartime rift in their alliance...
Next morning Lieut, (j.g.) Marshall C. Freerks of Cuyuna, Minn, hit pay dirt. Easing through a rift in the overcast he popped out over a Jap task force, two carriers, cruisers, a screen of destroyers. Ducking in & out of the overcast, he radioed for help. Another PBY led Army Flying Fortresses and Marauders to the spot. They blasted through the fog, got a probable hit on one of the carriers...