Word: counterattacking
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While Franklin Roosevelt sat planning in the White House, enemies of his foreign policy took advantage of his silence to start a counterattack. They were led by Montana's isolationist Senator Burton Kendall Wheeler. Ever since he was beaten in the Supreme Court fight in 1937 by Burt Wheeler and his forces, the President has obviously been a little afraid of the trouble that Wheeler could stir up. Senator Wheeler last week had plenty of ammunition for his attack, one revelation, one prophecy, one dare, one warning and (with Senator Taft) one report...
...successful Axis counterattack which drove the reduced British forces back into Egypt was due chiefly to: 1. Malaria, which decimated Australian and New Zealand troops...
...annihilated were not supported by German claims of prisoners: only 40,000. And so the Yugoslavs, in divided units operating as colossal guerrilla parties, using the French tactics of artillery preparation and assault which Dusan Simovitch learned at St. Cyr, the elite French war college, began to counterattack in exactly the opposite direction from their pre-battle expectation. Their major effort was southward, into the Serbian hills. They counterattacked near Kragujevac, General Simovitch's birthplace - traditional home of the Obrenovitch dynasty. Their strongest push was into a rugged defile known as Kachanik Pass. There they claimed to have destroyed...
...altogether possible that the Axis was contemplating a counterattack in Libya. In his speech fortnight ago, Benito Mussolini hinted that there were still some 150,000 Italian troops left in Libya-a far greater remnant than had been supposed. From unofficial French and German sources came perhaps exaggerated reports that the Germans in Libya numbered two armored divisions...
...come under attack. Most notable assailant has been Alfred P. Sloan Jr., chairman of General Motors Corp., who recommended that the "penalty for overtime should be canceled during the emergency to encourage a longer work week." Colonel Fleming, like a good military tactician, waited until he was ready to counterattack. First he got Mr. Sloan's opinions in writing. Then he got a good radio spot. Last week he replied...