Word: garrisons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Must Go. Except in Tabriz, Iranian troops patrolled the streets with armored cars or motorcycles mounting machine guns. In Tabriz, the Red Army simply locked the Iranian garrison in its barracks. Later, a Tass report said Iranian troops in Tabriz had fired on a "peaceful anti-Government demonstration," killed a demonstrator. The Red Army also cut off Iranian grain from the rest of Iran. Cried Kavtaradze and Moscow: Said must...
...International Brigade in Spain. As Colonel Rol-Tanguy he headed the F.F.I, in the Ile-de-France region (Paris plus the Departments of Seine and Seine-et-Oise). Last August, during the battle of Paris, the Swedish Minister and a French military delegate negotiated an armistice with the German garrison. But Colonel Rol-Tanguy denounced it, ordered his Maquis to continue street fighting. It was this armistice upset which compelled the Allies to come to the aid of the besieged F.F.I. instead of sweeping around Paris...
...first document produced by Wilck was unsatisfactory to the Americans: it did not contain the word "unconditional." After some hesitation, which he said was due to fear of Nazi retaliation against his family, Gerhardt Wilck drafted another: "Aachen's defending German garrison ran out of food and ammunition. I am forced to give up my command and surrender Aachen unconditionally, with all its stores, to the commanding officer of the victorious Americans...
...leader of the partisans, the man who made himself known to the world as General Bor, flashed a message to the Polish government in London: "Warsaw has fallen after exhausting all supplies and ammunition on the 63rd day of the struggle. . . ." Then Bor surrendered to the Germans with his garrison, his staff and his wife, who had borne a child during the uprising...
...weeks ago, a Jap invasion fleet from Formosa nosed up to the mouth of the Min, downstream from Foochow (see map). Assault troops swarmed ashore and drove swiftly to the suburbs of the port, whose garrison had held out in hope of welcoming an Allied invasion force. Last week a second landing was made on the south bank of the Min, catching Foochow between the two Jap columns...