Word: rear-guard
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...South Flank. In terms of miles, U.S. troops made the biggest gains. From Minturno on the south of the line one column pushed into the little mountain town of Spigno, found only rear-guard Germans there. Another column pounded along the coast to the town of Formia...
...western and northern Europe, the Germans have no buffer lands to trade for time, or for a tenuous, temporary security. Occupied Denmark and Norway lie between Britain and the coast of north eastern Germany. But they are no places for rear-guard economy; they are places to be held as strongly and fiercely as the Germans would fight for their own coast. For, if they fall, the inner fortress will have been breached...
Franklin Roosevelt, fighting a rear-guard action against inflation, last week ordered his aides to think up some new tactics. His price lieutenants jumped in with the usual set of one-page memos of their ideas, for him to cull and con. Soon, perhaps in the first fireside chat since February, the plans will be unfolded. The usual "informed sources" said that the tentative program, subject to change without notice, will include...
...According to Weltwoche, even before Mussolini quit, the Germans had abandoned any hope of holding all the shores and lands of Axis Europe. Instead, they planned to turn Norway, Denmark and Belgium in the north, France in the west, Italy, Yugoslavia, Greece, Bulgaria and Crete in the south into rear-guard battlefields. As in Sicily, limited German forces would fight for those lands-not to hold them indefinitely, but to make invasion as slow and expensive as possible for the Allies. Weltwoche said that the Germans hoped only to hold an inner citadel-Germany itself, a part of Holland...
...Germans in eastern Sicily could stage a rear-guard action, covering a retreat of their main forces. Or they could stand. Either choice would delay the Allies. Neither could save Sicily and the nearest approach to the Italian mainland...