Word: understood
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...generals in other countries were surprised at Sir Alan's appointment as Britain's land-defense chief, British generals understood. He is no scintillating genius, but the job he did, in one week, of whipping together the Southern command out of tens of thousands of exhausted men who were landed back in England, scattered at different ports, when Germany was expected to follow them across the Channel at any moment, was called "the major feat of organization in British Army history...
...reputedly rising from a monthly rate of about 30 to its fall quota of 125. It still had a long way to go to its estimated production top, 500-600 a month. The Curtiss factory at Buffalo was meanwhile howling for Allisons for its P-4O pursuit ships, was understood to have 70 to 100 waiting for engines. Bell Aircraft, manufacturer of the speedy Airacobra, was waiting...
Late last summer Lord Lothian arrived in Washington. Last week even professional Anglophobes were compelled to admit that if the U. S. had not understood the British case-and its meaning to the U. S. -it had not been because Lord Lothian had fallen down as an Ambassador. Pacing his littered study in the Embassy he was saying (between transatlantic phone calls and visits to the State Department) what he had said when he arrived: that the prize for which Hitler was contending was command of the sea. The only difference was that he now said it more forcefully...
...under democratic control. Although U. S. -British cooperation is suspect in the U. S. because it "obviously operates to the benefit of the British Commonwealth and not so obviously to the benefit of the U. S.," Lord Lothian believes that the issue would be clear when the U. S. understood what control of the sea by totalitarian powers would mean. "Do you suppose for one moment that if Nazi Germany or Communist Russia obtained control of the seas, the world would be any thing like as free as it was during the period of British control?" But Lord Lothian...
These episodes and the change of spirit that took place between them may be understood from Halliburton's letters home, of which this volume is a selection. The stunts, it is obvious, became more & more staged, more & more weary, as time went on. Yet the naivete which made it possible for him to invent them was also nearly great enough to exonerate him of their ridiculousness, their frantic commercialism. His last stunt - a voyage across the Pacific in a Chinese junk, which ended somewhere at sea - was of a piece with all the rest...