Word: counters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because Marshal von Bock could not advance speedily, the element of surprise was largely denied him. The usually ponderous Russians could see what he was trying to do, were able to take counter-measures (see black arrows on map, p. 24). They claimed that they were squeezing his northern prong into a virtual encirclement, that they were slowing the southern prong...
...French Indo-China, to make many minor concessions-the U.S. continued to quote Mein Kampf. Aside from the moral issues involved, the U.S. cannot let Japan-and Hitler-get control of China's huge man power. Four points were given as summing up Secretary Hull's counter-demands on the Japanese: 1) that Japan withdraw from the Axis; 2) get out of China and French Indo-China; 3) renounce aggression; 4) observe the principle of equal trade opportunity in the Pacific...
Biggest of Joseph Goebbels' seven departments is Counter-Action, where "the separate threats of propaganda and espionage are knit together." By 1937 it controlled some 330 German-language newspapers in non-German countries; good reporters can also be good spies. The Department also made notable use of movie companies: one filmed Robinson Crusoe (never released) on a strategic island off South America; another made a huge documentary (never released) of Poland, in 1938. Artists were useful, too, from a great Wagnerian soprano down to second-grade cabaret girls. And servant girls-between 1933 and 1939 some...
...closes his book with a few loud notes of hope: One is a salute to the FBI, which has, with the collaboration of some 150,000 local police, put counter-espionage on a national basis. One is a tribute to those "unknown soldiers," the private citizens of Occupied Europe who are collaborating with British spies and British bombers in a little total espionage of their own. One is the most pleasing version yet of the causes of the Hess Flight and the Russian...
...growth of his forces caused him to make the real mistake of his career. In planning his counter-attacks last June, to throw the Germans back beyond Tobruk after they had retaken Libya, he planned a rapid attack, quick withdrawal, reattack. In operation he found that he could not move his big forces as quickly as he had moved his small forces. Supply complications and intertwining of forces tangled up the plan. It failed, and after a few days' fruitless fighting the attempt was abandoned...