Word: counter-attack
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Asked if Australia would be a favorable base for a counter-attack, de Haas said, "Decidely not. Port Darwin is too far from the supply lines that Japan must maintain to keep her forces now in the Dutch Indies supplied...
...Counter-Attack. "In strengthening our youth against the Nazi lie, we must make their faith glow in the truth which is that the essence of democracy is belief in the fatherhood of God, the brotherhood of man, and the dignity of the individual soul. . . . This we can do if, in addition to holding firmly to our Bill of Rights ... we formulate a Bill of Duties...
...usual the announcement of intention to attack came after the attack. At 5:15 a.m. the Germans struck. At 5:30 o'clock the German Minister to Athens, Viktor Prinz zu Erbach-Schönberg, presented a note to the Greek Government announcing that, because of the wicked British, it would be necessary to attack Greece. As usual the German High Command announced that Yugoslav and British troops having advanced against them, it had been necessary to "counter-attack...
...Counter-Attack. Said the colonel: "If I found that the overtime penalty was interfering with defense production, I would report my observation to the President just as fast as a sentry reports the presence of the enemy. ... I have found no such thing. Defense industries have not been asking to be relieved of the overtime penalty. ... I have had no complaints from the airplane industry...
...this is a considerable distance. But in terms of Germany's lightning drives from Smolensk to Bryansk and from Bryansk to the outskirts of Moscow, it is relatively small for the time spent. Yet the wishful thinking of the press has given birth to a widespread notion that the counter-attack is a large-scale rout, although any amateur pin-pusher can discover that the Soviets are doing in months what the Nazis did in weeks...