Word: rearguards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are few more difficult military operations than fighting a rearguard action against an aggressive enemy; under the strain most armies collapse. But the British, Australians and New Zealanders fought for 18 days and 245 miles-from Salonika to Olympus to Larissa to Thermopylae to Thebes to Athens-and not once did they allow the Germans to break through their lines in any force...
Coal is the biggest but not the first victory for the capitalists in Nazi Germany. For years broad-faced, quiet Herr Wohlthat has doggedly fought a rearguard action against the Party radicals. Born in Wismar (where his father ran a hat shop), Wohlthat got some of his education in the U. S. (New York University and Columbia) and his first real business experience in the Pennsylvania oil fields. In 1930 he married a Philadelphia schoolteacher who happened to be a poor relation of Dr. Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht...
Pacific Policy. All that U. S. diplomacy could do in the Pacific was to wage a rearguard action. Originator of that action was Herbert Hoover's Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson, who will not want to scuttle it now that he is recalled to the Cabinet (see p. 11). First Mr. Stimson and then his friend Cordell Hull had to use a strategy which was delicate, complex, in the circumstances, reasonably effective. They played as best they could on the enormous respect in which the Japanese people (but not the Japanese rulers) hold U. S. opinion. They denounced...
...kept her honor bright. The Russians would look a lot less potent to the world, but at home Stalin could be made to appear a conquering hero, having won the U. S. S. R.'s first outside fight since its formation. The Germans would again enjoy a solid rearguard of neutrals. And the Allies would again savor the bitter hopelessness of trying to be the moral and political chaperones of a part of the world they cannot get an Army into...