Word: counterattacking
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...France's main Maginot Line is manned by veteran regulars, with young reservists performing the attack work, so Germany's Wall is manned by 20 divisions (some 250,000 men) of the regular Land-wehr, mostly veterans of 35-45, specially trained for defense. For sallies and counterattack which the Germans executed with moderate success last week, less valuable field troops are used, and Allied observers reported streams of reinforcements flowing toward Trier at week's end. They looked like about six divisions, which would be no great diversion from the 70 (out of Germany...
...city of any importance the length & breadth of Poland. They aimed at air bases, fortifications, bridges, railroad lines and stations, but in the process they killed upward of 1,500 noncombatants. The Nazi ships were mostly big Heinkels, unaccompanied by pursuit escorts. Germany admitted losing 21 planes to Polish counterattack by pursuits and antiaircraft. They claimed to have massacred more than half of a 47-plane Polish squadron which tried to bomb Berlin...
...mile front, Gamelin's 9th fell back slowly, until on March 26, when the German advance had traveled 28 miles, it was almost isolated as units on both flanks gave way. Gamelin was faced with two possible movements: he could withdraw at once and take heavy losses, or counterattack on his flanks and, risking annihilation, take the chance of pulling his people out in comparative safety that night. He prepared to attack, moved his headquarters to the front, casually invited some British generals in to dinner-it was just before the emergency made Foch Supreme Allied Commander-watched...
...these charges Robert Odell had last week made no direct answer. Instead he brought a spectacular counterattack. He claimed that Commissioner Evans is a political minion of Governor Olson and that they are ganging up on him because he did not contribute enough to their 1938 campaign fund. He based this in part upon the appointment of Norman Church as Pacific States' custodian...
...first 21 years. Those who read his latest poems, Vigils (1936), will be prepared for this serene counterpart in prose. To most other readers Siegfried Sassoon is still associated with 1) his realistic war trilogy (Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, etc.) and his bitter war poems (CounterAttack, etc.); 2) his spectacularly murderous heroism in the trenches (in order, he once told Robert Graves, "to keep up the good reputation of the poets"); and 3) his equally spectacular pacifism, when in 1917 he threw his Military Cross into the sea, publicly denounced the "political errors and insincerities" of the British...