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...strategy, long planned, was comparatively simple. The Commandos were to land by stealth and distract German forces in Berneval, four miles to the east, and Varengeville, five miles to the west. Major General John Hamilton Roberts' Canadians would carry the main show, with flanking attacks against the chalk cliffs on both sides of Dieppe and a frontal assault on Dieppe's beaches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF EUROPE: Rehearsal | 8/31/1942 | See Source »

With hatred of the Nazis seething through Norway, with Canadian and U.S. expeditionary forces on hand in Britain, Norway looked inviting as a diversion theater, to distract the Germans from other fronts, if not yet as the Allied road back. A sweep across northern Norway would give the Allies a common U.S.-British-Soviet front, might knock Finland out of the war. Joseph Stalin is anxious to get his allies into some nearby field, even if their foray fails. The mere threat of action against Norway had already immobilized some 200,000 German soldiers who might have been killing Russians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: New Front? | 3/30/1942 | See Source »

Sweden was virtually encircled. The problem, more ominous than ever before, was to figure out this year's answer to the Hitler guessing game. There were at least three possibilities: 1) the Germans were trying to distract the Allies from other objectives; 2) they were warring against Swedish nerves to force permission for cross-Sweden movements of troops; 3) they meant to forestall a United Nations invasion of Norway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWEDEN: Merry Dr. Schmidt | 3/23/1942 | See Source »

President Green admits his impotence when it comes to settling brawls between such behemoths. The various national and international unions, loosely bound together as a "federation," are autonomous, a law unto themselves. The best that aging Mr. Green can do is to distract the public's attention from their wasteful and costly conflicts by incessantly standing on his head, like Father William, and emitting such soothing cries as: "The officers and members of the American Federation of Labor are irrevocably committed to the preservation of our common heritage, individual liberty, our democratic form of government and our democratic institutions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Holdup Men of Labor | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

Wildcats. Others saw the situation in a somewhat different light. They felt that it was the U.S. that would be put on the shelf, unless labor deloused itself of Communists who were doing their native best to distract and disrupt the nation's defense efforts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Terrible Week | 6/23/1941 | See Source »

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