Word: counterattacks
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...facts in the above instances call for more moderate language, then sacrifice colorful writing and say: 'Allied forces today moved toward X'; Allied air forces today continued their repeated bombings'; 'The German defenses of Z today were hard hit.' Even the word 'counterattack' may be a misnomer. It may be an out-and-out attack...
News is the G.I.s' favorite radio item-and they get plenty of it. There are no commentators, experts, keyholers, just the cold facts. The Germans, for instance, do not "counterattack," they "advance." Says Baruch: "You can't eyewash the boys or smooth anything over; they're too close...
...Anzio beachhead last week the U.S. and Allied press won a minor counterattack but they were losing a major battle against brass-buttoned censorship. The Army had served notice that it could make correspondents hew to the official line of what is good and what is bad battle news...
...battle. They reminded the General: 1) that a BBC broadcast, day after the Jan. 22 landings, had been responsible for too much cheer by reporting that "Alexander's brave troops are pushing towards Rome . . . should reach it within 48 hours"; 2) that the subsequent gloom, when the German counterattack was conscientiously reported, had not been helped by official statements at home. Up spoke the Chicago Daily News'?, belligerent William Stoneman: "The biggest scare of all was given by the President of the United States...
...alert for Nazi airborne counterattack. "At the most [a Home Guardsman] may waste a day; at the best he may kill a German before breakfast and be back at his factory on the evening shift...