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Meanwhile, the Associated Press reported Israeli claims that the whole Sinai Peninsula--150 miles wide at the Mediteranean end and 230 miles deep--had fallen to a successful Israeli pincer movement. The 20,000-man Egyptian force guarding the area was reported in full retreat toward the Suez Canal, where landings by British and French paratroops were expected momentarily...
Died. Lieut. General (ret.) Stafford LeRoy ("Red") Irwin, 62. onetime (1950-52) commander of U.S. forces in Austria, commander of the 5th Division, which formed the southern arc of the pincer that captured the French city. Metz, in World War II; of a coronary occlusion; in Asheville...
Charlie no doubt wonders how all this is going to turn out. Little does he know that in the next issue the Allies will land in the south of France to launch a pincer movement against the retreating Germans . . . My advice to Charlie is to take heart. I predict that by the end of the month we'll be in complete control of Paris, Marseille will capitulate. Bulgaria will petition for an armistice, and Rumania will surrender and switch to the Allied side. As Verdun. Saint-Mihiel and Dieppe fall, the Russians will take over the entire Ploesti oilfields...
...eleven of Phuly's twelve outlying defense posts; he has the twelfth under harassment; and from now on, his possibilities are a succession of dangerous "ifs." If Giap attacks Phuly, if he gets it, if Vietnamese and Western morale further crumbles, he might decide to try a big pincer offensive from south and north, designed to cut in between Hanoi and the sea. If Giap can do this, Cogny will have to evacuate Hanoi. These are "ifs" indeed; but though the French still keep up an optimistic front, U.S. military observers on the scene are already talking about "whens...
...Thousands of Red troops had been trapped in a pincer movement which cut their lines to the north...