Word: counters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Iran's reserves, bringing the strength of his efficient little Army up to about 200,000. Vainly he attempted a last-ditch compromise, swore there were fewer than 600 Germans in Iran, indicated he might send them away little by little. But when the British moved, he counter-moved. His Premier Ali Mansur told his Parliament: "We have taken all necessary measures to face this attack...
...unknown to the rest of the world. The Peruvians entered the Gulf of Guayaquil with several ships and planes. Just twelve Peruvian parachutists took Machala and seven took Puerto Bolivar. They kept banging away at the town as they floated down, but stopped when there was no Ecuadorian counter fire. Peruvian troops moved easily across the flat land between the coast and Piedras. In a miniature Blitz they burned farms, confiscated crops, looted houses even of radio sets and bric-a-brac. Several thousand Ecuadorian refugees fled northward to Guayaquil and other cities by foot, mule, boat, boxcar-many went...
...annihilated" Soviet Air Force appeared still to have a few wings. The "completely disorganized" Russian Army was able to organize counter-attacks which even the Germans called severe. The "numerous pockets" of Russians, supposedly sewed up tight, still ripped and burst...
When the Red Army was originally founded, there were not enough politically reliable officers to go around; Tsarist officers had to be kept in service. To guard against counter-revolutionary movements within the Army, they were rigidly supervised by political officers. Every military order issued by an officer had to be counter-signed by his commissar before it could be carried out. In practice this came to mean constant civilian interference, and endless argument instead of action in crisis...
...Berlin announced that Hungarian Communist Bela Kun had been taken prisoner by counter-revolutionary Ukrainians. (Last previous report on Bela Kun was that he had been purged in Russia in 1939.) Another from Berlin: Reichstag Fire-famed Georgi Dimitroff would soon be named special Soviet emissary...