Word: diversionism
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Italy. Men in the Mediterranean theater sensed a new reason for the slowness of the Italian campaign: their fight might be a gigantic diversion, a holding attack designed to keep as many Germans as possible engaged there while other invasions are devised and mounted. It appeared that the center of...
But he can also remember that a strong carrier force raided Wake and at any time might support an invasion blow at Truk's eastern flank-at the Marshalls and Gilberts, for instance. He must have realized that last week's Solomons action might be partly a diversion...
MR. MIRAKEL -E. Phillips Oppenheim - Little, Brown ($2). The Oppen-heimily-colored, romantic and adventurous tale of a rich London hotel owner who transported a bevy of war-weary cosmopolites to a fantastic Utopia where man, of course, decided to be entertainingly vile. Good Oppenheim and pleasant diversion for an...
At first this dawning realization was a bitter pill for the R.A.F. Bomber Command and the U.S. Eighth Air Force. Every shift of bombers to the Mediterranean was a "diversion," a threat to the use of independent air power. By last week the pill was becoming an acceptable if not...
From Honolulu, Admiral Chester Nimitz could attack with carrier forces and amphibious troops across the central Pacific, seizing bases from which the Navy could get athwart Japan's communications with her southern holdings. The other Navy objective: to seek out the Jap and destroy him. Supplementary to Nimitz'...