Word: outflankers
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...Then Britain, perhaps thinking to outflank her unruly daughters, asked the U.S. to confer separately with her. The U.S. regretted she was unable to lunch today-it being election year...
Victory in Estonia-a victory in sight, but yet to be won-would enable the Russians to: 1) roll back the entire German Baltic Front across the flat, creek-laced terrain of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania; 2) outflank the German front in White Russia; 3) raid Germany's supply routes across the Baltic, depriving the German munitions industry of Swedish ore and virtually isolating Finland...
...General Clark had been remarkably frank in announcing the march on Rome. Actually, he may intend to by-pass it on land, outflank...
...Russians are prepared to take full advantage of the Wehrmacht's difficulties: >From Smolensk, they now threaten the fat German bulge stretching out to Leningrad. If Vitebsk falls, the Baltic states would soon be in Russian hands. >From half a dozen points on the Dnieper, they can outflank most of the German strongholds on the Dnieper line. > From Melitopol and the Caucasus they will threaten the Crimea. > From the Crimea, if & when it falls, they will again dominate the Black Sea, and once again Germany's vassal states of Rumania and Bulgaria will be open to a direct...
Nazi prospects in Yugoslavia are better, and they are improved the farther north the Germans look. To outflank Yugoslavia, as Greece and Crete are already outflanked, the Allies must take most of German-held Italy. Last week the Germans said that strong troop concentrations had moved on to the Yugoslav coast of the Adriatic. These reports had a ring of truth. On that coast, at its few practicable points of entry,, the Germans can hope to gain time and inflict heavy losses in a profitable rear-guard-stand. It is there, if anywhere, that they must hold a gate...