Word: counter-attacked
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...time England and Germany are deadlocked. Up to now we have been willing to pour planes and material into the breach in order to help the British in their fight to stave off invasion. But that phase of the war is at an end. Already there is talk of counter-attack by England. Yet it is plain that England can never dislodge the German octopus from the continent of Europe without American aid--millions of American men to fight on the beaches of Brittany and the Channel coast, as well as American ships and planes. And it is equally plain...
...knew the need for speed. "Our Army," he wrote several years ago, "is strong in numbers but it has the character of defensive armies, slowness and rigidity. I may add"-and this proved tragically true last week-"that it has not the technical means for rapid and decisive counter-attack." He urgently demanded "an Army of shock troops with lightning-like speed and formidable power in artillery . . . modern tanks which will go 40 kilometres an hour in flat country." But those defenders of the realm, Blum, Daladier, Gamelin, would not listen...
Died. Major General Omar Bundy, U. S. A., 78, much-decorated veteran of 40 years of campaigning (Sioux Indians, Spanish-American War, Philippine Insurrection, World War I-in which, to a French order to retire at Chteau-Thierry, he replied: "We are going to counter-attack." and did); after a two-year illness; in Washington...
...very day that a German major-general urged the wholesale peaceful invasion of Latin America by the cultural prophets of the German Reich, in the economic sphere the United States launched its first major counter-attack against Nazi penetration of South America. The United States-Brazil trade agreements put a sudden halt to the growth of the German economic domination of Brazil, and provided a strong impulse to the growth of closer economic alliance of the United States with its Latin-American neighbors...
...young Irish patriot (Brian O'Sullivan), suspected of being an "informer" by his mates, is ostracised and in revenge joins the British "Black and Tans." A threatened raid on his former fellows brings him to his senses in time to warn them of it, and lead a counter-attack. Romance winds its way unobtrusively through the story in the person of a lovely Irish colleen (Margaret O'Connor), also a fiery patriot...