Word: desertion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...followed to their successes in Africa and Europe. There were historic examples in every Allied airman's mind. In Africa, breezy Air Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham had combined the three tenets to slug the Germans out of the sky, and then pace Montgomery's march across the desert with advance air strikes. The Americans used the technique to break the stalemates below Rome. D-day was the prime result of applying Principles 1 and 2 (the whittled Luftwaffe had been pushed back from the Channel, the Seine-Loire triangle had been effectively isolated days before the invasion...
...Germans at Arizona's desert-bordered Papago Park camp were full of wooden-faced horseplay. Prisoners nagged their guards, sometimes hid for days only to turn up well-fed and grinning. They were tough, picked men, almost all from Nazi U-boat crews. Beneath their erratic behavior guards could sense some hidden discipline, could only guess, month after month, at its purpose. Last week the patternless war of nerves seemed to be approaching a climax. Hundreds of prisoners formed ranks one afternoon to cheer the German advances on the western front. Then, as guards advanced, the shouting stopped...
...cars patrolling the roads and armed men searching freight trains by week's end had found nothing of the other 19 escaped prisoners. Unless they had help from the outside, the vanished prisoners (twelve of them Nazi officers) faced nearly 200 miles of trudging across barren cactus-studded desert to reach the Mexican border. Veteran Arizona sheriff's deputies and U.S. border patrolmen settled down to patient, poker-faced waiting...
...Neighbor policy, the 1943 Moscow Declaration and the Dumbarton Oaks agreement. The Hull failures have also been impressive. In success or failure, Mr. Hull usually preserved his native dignity. That dignity was sore beset when Franklin Roosevelt torpedoed the 1933 London Economic Conference from under him. It did not desert him (though it called to its aid some white-hot Tennessee cuss words) when Pearl Harbor caught him politely conferring with two grinning Japanese diplomats. It kept him at least outwardly calm when New Deal left-wingers shrilly accused him of appeasing Petain, Darlan, Franco and Badoglio...
Last week, Colonel General Janos Vörös, chief of the Hungarian Army general staff, who had gone over to the Red Army, broadcast an appeal to his troops from Moscow, ordered them to desert with their weapons and equipment to the Russian side. General Vörös said that he spoke in the name of Horthy's regency. Though the Russians for more than two decades had denounced the testy old Admiral as a fascist, General Vörös ended his broadcast to Hungarians with the words: "Long live free, democratic Hungary...