Word: dunkirk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inflamed by revolution, and promptly joined the White Army. "My political beliefs made it imperative," he says. But the White Army was almost wiped out in the two years of bitter fighting that followed. In 1920, those who were left sailed for Istanbul and exile. "It was a miniature Dunkirk...
...merely "attempted to protect the President from some bad advice that would have led him down the path blazed by New Deal Democrats." Malone advised Scott to "settle down"; Mason said he opposed Eisenhower's program only "where I thought it was wrong." And from his home in Dunkirk. N.Y., old Dan Reed, who lost a slugging match to the President on excess profits taxes in July, said of his relations with Ike, "We are very close friends." Of Scott's grumble, Reed chuckled: "Well. Hughy'll say darn near anything for publicity...
...from a broken leg; in Twyford, England. Four times decorated in World War I, Mason MacFarlane headed British intelligence in France when World War II began. After the 1940 German breakthrough in Belgium, he mustered a hodgepodge "Mac Force" of rear-echelon troops and led a fighting retreat to Dunkirk. In 1944 as chief of the Allied Control Commission in liberated Italy, he smoothly directed the cleanup of Fascist officials. At war's end Laborite "Mason Mac" was elected to' Parliament...
...World War II, in the retreat to Dunkirk, he was operational commander of "Mac Force," the improvised formation covering the British right flank, and was mentioned in dispatches. Back in England he shot up to be the youngest lieutenant general in the British army. Believing he had risen too quickly, he asked for and got a combat command...
...press, the oil tycoons of Houston, and the moneychangers of Wall Street," he cried. "Let them ride to battle in their motors, forgetful of the day when there was no chicken and there was no pot ..." He wound up with a tinny imitation of Tory Winston Churchill's Dunkirk pledge: "We shall fight them in the cities and fight them in the towns. We shall fight in the counties and fight in the precincts. We shall never surrender . . . We have triumphed before. We shall triumph again...