Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Unpredictable Senator Key Pittman of Nevada, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, handed reporters a statement that advised the British Government to abandon the British Isles to Hitler. Said he: "It is no secret that Great Britain is totally unprepared for defense and that nothing the United States has to give can do more than delay the result. Churchill's statement, 'We will never surrender' and that if any portions of the British Isles are subjugated 'we will fight from the New World with our navy,' if carried out and carried out immediately, will...
Generalissimo Weygand had some 500,000 fresh men (27 divisions) in the Maginot Line. When his northern front started crumbling, the time came when he had to abandon the Maginot Line to save at least some of these fortress troops ("shellfish"), at least some of their mountainous supplies of food and ammunition, before they were completely enveloped. If he could get them back to the neighborhood of Dijon they might help to hold a new defense line from the valley of the Loire through the north bastions of France's Massif Central...
...Premier Reynaud decided to abandon them...
This officer's respect for German military power, plus Leopold's conception of absolute neutrality and his will for peace, led the King in 1936 to abandon Belgium's alliance with France. After that he became more & more subject to the influence of Flemish, anti-French thought. He had no personal liking for the French, used to vacation in the Austrian Tyrol and Italy, caused a mild scandal in 1938 by letting his picture be taken bathing near Bolzano with a certain Frau Rosa Weisinger (see cut, p. 32). Leopold had the most solemn assurances from Adolf...
...Some physicists, among them myself, cannot believe that we must abandon, actually and forever, the idea of direct representation of physical reality in space and time; or that we must accept the view [supported by the uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics] that events in nature are analogous to a game of chance...