Word: sloganism
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Because of the openness of the French countryside and the strength of the German occupation forces, French partisans have not yet engaged in major operations. But with their slogan, "A bas les Boches," they have been responsible...
...Slogan of the new State: "Freedom for All Peoples; Death to Fascism." It advocates the creation of a federation of equal States modeled after Switzerland. The impoverished peasants of Yugoslavia-Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, Macedonians, Montenegrins and Hungarians, Christians and Moslems-have shown an increasing preference for the Partisans. They have deserted Mihailovich, who works for a greater Serbia, the Fascist Ustachi, who want a greater Croatia, and the Serbian collaborationists under the quisling General Milan Neditch...
...flames. Offshore Ulysses' sailors were lured by the lotus-eaters. From Carthage, whose ruins lie near the present city of Tunis, Hannibal's legions moved against the Roman Empire. It was Cato the Censor who urged on the Romans in the Punic wars with his famous slogan: "Delenda Est Carthago" (Carthage must be destroyed...
...police of Tananarive on Vichy's Madagascar were at first puzzled, then alarmed. All over town Fighting French signs were appearing, scrawled by invisible hands at night. Day after day the police would erase DEATH TO THE TRAITORS OF VICHY, ANNET FOR THE GALLOWS and many another slogan. One morning they found that nearly all the red lights of the traffic signals had been decorated with the Cross of Lorraine. They tried to trace the origin of a stenciled angel with the caption ANGEL OVER MADAGASCAR. They collected by the thousands leaflets with the emblem and the added injunction...
...cannot but be recognized that thus far it has been China's heroic and effective resistance which has preserved the loyalty of the Asiatic peoples to the cause of the United Nations and served to combat the Japanese slogan of Asia for the Asiatics. . . . Equally certain is the fact that active participation in the war by the Indian people would have political effects of immense military value...