Word: ivans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...armies had jammed through for gains up to 60 miles on a 175-mile front. This week they had sent the Germans reeling back to within twelve miles of Memel on the sea, to within three miles of the northern East Prussia border. Credit went to Generals Ivan Bagramian and Ivan Chernyakhovsky, who figured much more prominently in the Eastern Front news last July than they have lately...
...Minister Winston Churchill on his second wartime visit to Moscow. He had suddenly swooped down on the big Moscow airfield with Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and high British military men. Five planes brought the 50 Britons. On hand to meet them were Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov, Foreign Vice Commissar Ivan Maisky, high Russian military...
Churchill acted. A shake-up occurred in the Yugoslav Government in Exile. The new Premier was Dr. Ivan Subasich, a Croat, who was in Manhattan when the summons came. In Bari, on the Italian coast, he sat down with Tito, roughed out a working agreement. The exiled Gov ernment recognized Tito as head of his provisional administration inside Yugo slavia. Tito agreed that at war's end Yugo slavs would get a chance to vote for what ever kind of government they wanted. Meanwhile, the King might continue to call himself King...
...Eisenhower could look ahead confidently to new phases. He named Major General Ivan Gerard to direct Belgian patriots. He rallied the Netherlanders' resistance under Prince Bernhard's leadership, urged them to block damage to Rotterdam and other ports. To Germany he said again: its war will be over in 1944. Unless the Wehrmacht could show more than it had in France, no snow would fall on the Battle of Germany...
...Americans for terms-terms that would let them remain neutral, keep their German-given gains in Greece and Yugoslavia, protect German soldiers and weapons still in Bulgaria. But Moscow growled: "Bulgarian ruse . . . false maneuvers . . . subterfuge and secret connivance with the Germans! . . ." Down crashed the government of artful Prime Minister Ivan Bagrianoff. To the helm in Sofia went a Russophile cabinet headed by a leftist Peasant leader, Constantine Muraviev...