Word: counterattacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have influenced policy out of all proportion to their real power. Last month the party's "Challenge to Britain" platform called for partial nationalization of the complex aircraft, machine-tool and chemical industries. But last week the Trades Union Congress (183 unions, 8,000,000 members) staged a counterattack. Keynoted Chairman Tom O'Brien: "The British trades union movement created the Labor Party, and if the child thinks it is going to devour the father, it must be told there is nothing doing...
...assigned to lead the German landing in Britain (Operation Sea-Lion ) that never happened (because the amazing British beat off Goring's air assault). In Russia, he opened the fortified gateway to the Crimean peninsula, stormed the Russian Black Sea naval bastion at Sevastopol, and led the counterattack that retook Kharkov in March 1943. Hitler, disliking his outspoken manners as much as he depended on his ability, finally fired him in 1944, first acknowledging: "Manstein is perhaps the best brain that the General Staff Corps has produced...
...reinforcements to Laos. The Red guerrillas swarmed over the airfield, the finest in Indo-China and specially designed for jet aircraft, and dispersed the guard. They killed 20 Frenchmen, captured and executed Provincial Chief Trinh Nhu Tiep, burned the barracks, set off 3,000 tons of ammunition. A French counterattack killed 212 Viet Minh, captured 125, and regained control of Kien...
...Counterattack Readied. After listening to Van Fleet and Almond, subcommittee members were surer than ever that some types of ammunition had been in chronically short supply in Korea...
From the Pentagon floated rumors that high Army brass was sharpening long knives for a counterattack on Van Fleet. The brass would find that he was well entrenched on Capitol Hill. One Senator wrote to Army Secretary Robert T. Stevens asking that Van Fleet be kept on active duty "because the country needs him." And Styles Bridges was so taken with Van Fleet that he offered him a job as military advisor to his Appropriations committee. Van Fleet promised to think it over...