Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...could not go on. At 1730, De Castries called GHQ for the last time: "After 20 hours of ceaseless combat, just now man-to-man, the enemy has infiltrated right through our central bastion. Munitions are short. Our resistance is about to be submerged. The Vietminh are only a few yards from the radio where I speak. I have given orders for maximum demolitions. The ammo depots are going up already. Au revoir...
...Castries and Lalande as prisoners of war. Said Cogny, weeping: "Dienbienphu is a new name to emblazon on the streamers of France." Said Navarre, in a special Order of the Day to his remaining 230,000 French Union and 240,000 Vietnamese troops: "After 56 days of continuing combat, submerged by numbers, by odds of 5 to 1, the garrison has had to end its fight. . . The fall of the entrenched camp was accomplished only because the enemy, thanks to Chinese Communist assistance, was suddenly able to start a form of modern warfare entirely new to Indo-China. The defenders...
...Bidault was released by the Nazis in a general parole of World War I veterans. He made his way to Lyon, ostensibly to resume teaching. But instead, the meek-seeming little professor undertook the hazardous life of an underground patriot. He joined a Roman Catholic resistance group named Combat, soon was publicly identified as a resister and had to plunge into hiding, ultimately became known throughout the French Resistance movement for his ability to smooth over differing points of view...
Well before Dienbienphu's day of defeat came, many Frenchmen at home had given up. "Verdun?" said the moderate left-wing newspaper Combat bitterly. "Verdun was a position which could be held at all costs because the entire future depended on it ... But what does Dienbienphu mean for the French fighting man? ... An obsessive, slow and stubborn war. A terrible kind of war for which the French were not made-because they have clear intelligence, and like to know for what they are fighting. They are impulsive, and need to have a little glory stirring their flags, a little...
...luncheon given by Chicago Tribune Publisher Robert R. ("Bertie") McCormick, a new group, firm in their old belief that foreign entanglements are dangerous, banded themselves into "For America," an outfit which will "combat super-internationalism, one-worldism and Communism in America." Cochairmen: General Robert E. Wood, retired board chairman of Sears, Roebuck & Co. and onetime head of America First; Clarence E. Manion, ex-dean of Notre Dame's law school, whose resignation as chairman of the President's Commission on Intergovernmental Relations was forced after he began ballyhooing the Bricker Amendment (TIME, Feb. 8). Among other For Americans...