Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Destroyers. But the Committee's chief remaining objective remained: to secure the U. S. release of 50 World War I destroyers to plug the biggest gap in British defenses. When General Pershing urged it as a measure of U. S. security (TIME, Aug. 12), prompt objection came from Columnist Hugh Johnson, who pointed out that his old commanding officer and No. 1 hero among U. S. military men was a great general, but no expert on the sea. Last week two retired sea dogs, under the White Committee's auspices, added their voices to General Pershing...
...could not have been so swift and disastrous. In France the Brooke system never had a chance to prove itself, for after being ordered into, then out of Belgium, the Second Corps was swung south of its prepared positions in a brief effort to close the fatal Peronne-Bapaume gap. Then it was ordered to Dunkirk, where Sir Alan's rear-guard action and evacuation won him his knighthood...
...public last week, war in Europe continued to be largely incredible. To the U. S. public, it was news of another world. To many it had the aspect of a grisly sporting event. Imagination could not bridge the gap between the reported destruction of Europe and the evident peace of Main Street...
...only 200,000; the great strategic error of the campaign occurred when at England's insistence the French Army left its trenches to rush into the Lowlands to the fatal battle of the Meuse; General Weygand had asked the British to strike southward to help close the Artois gap, but after dallying for two days, the British suddenly abandoned Arras and raced northward towards the Channel ports; the British saved four-fifths of their troops at Dunkirk while the French lost half of theirs; at the Somme and Aisne, General Weygand had asked for British troops and aviation...
Round & round the cindered track they plodded, before $65 worth of paying spectators, the doctor coming within a fifth of a mile of closing the gap...